Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
by pugworthy on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:26PM
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I used to help run the website for Rogue Wave Software, who had the domain name "roguewave.com", and also bought the domain name "rwav.com" after the company went public as RWAV.
"rwav.com" had previously been owned by a small ISP, and their most famous hosted site was for "Vicky the Bodybuilder". We knew this because we'd see hits for her page all the time.
I emailed top few sites that were linking to the old Vicky address, letting them know the site had moved, and nobody changed their addresses.
So then I got Vicky's real email, and used the above telnet email spoof to send an email "from" Vicky to each of the linking sites, gushing about how happy I (Vicky) was that they linked to her, and just to let them know I (Vicky) would be really happy if they'd update their links.
"rwav.com" had previously been owned by a small ISP, and their most famous hosted site was for "Vicky the Bodybuilder". We knew this because we'd see hits for her page all the time.
I emailed top few sites that were linking to the old Vicky address, letting them know the site had moved, and nobody changed their addresses.
So then I got Vicky's real email, and used the above telnet email spoof to send an email "from" Vicky to each of the linking sites, gushing about how happy I (Vicky) was that they linked to her, and just to let them know I (Vicky) would be really happy if they'd update their links.
It worked.