News Spammers exploit anti-spam trap

From the Beeb:

Some spammers are getting their messages through using techniques designed to spot and stop them.
A survey shows that spammers are the biggest users of a technique designed to find out if e-mail comes from the net address it says it does.

The system was developed to stop mail senders faking the address in e-mail messages to give them an aura of authenticity and fool spam filters.

However, the system is proving good at stopping spoofing and phishing attacks.

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