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Remember Formmail? Spam fighters and email administrators of a certain age probably remember the bad old days of “ formmail ” spam. Formmail was a popular Perl script that let websites implement simple “contact us” forms. The problem? It was easily abused. The destination address was specified in the form POST, and there were usually no checks on what went in that field. So, script kiddies …
I'm only a couple hours into my day today and so far I've received three different emails from three completely different senders, each inviting me to go look at the same exciting erotic webcam site. Each email message came from what I think is a legitimate sender -- th…