Re:Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to sen...
by varun_ch on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:21AM
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I simultaneously don’t believe this and fully believe this is something they would do. Do you have any sources on this?
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Re:Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to sen...
by chuckadams on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:34AM
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It's amazing how little information has survived: the only reference I can find right away is https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22812691/What-is-...
I was working in anti-spam at the time, so I was eyeballing a lot of raw email dumps and writing analysis scripts for "anomalous" urls, so it popped up fairly frequently.
Re:Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to sen...
by qingcharles on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:38PM
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The primary problem is we can't search through time via WayBack Machine where a lot of these things have gone. Took me a while the other day to surface the Choco-Banana Shake Hang which Microsoft deleted from their production site.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000608173453/http://support.mi...
Re:Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to sen...
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:54PM
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There are a few archives of Microsoft KB articles. I found this article in Beta Archive wiki's, which has a full-text search. https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...
Re:Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to sen...
by qingcharles on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:56PM
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This is good news. I fear for those poor souls struggling with their Blendolinis.