Catch this spam

[lovingboth]

If you've got a .uk domain, you've probably been getting some odd spam (not selling anything, just taunting you about how much spam you're getting) sent to catchthismail@ the domain.

[Poll #931238]

In other spam news, I've just had one offering me a list of 1,58,000 Indian companies (thus showing it probably does come from India - one hundred thousand is a 'lakh', so Indians put a comma there, rather than at the million mark) which boasts that it's 85% accurate.

Gosh.

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[tempaccount99]

I wouldn't have noticed unless you'd pointed it out, but they've been trying to send about two an hour for most of the last few days.. Is there a back-story, or just something you noticed yourself?

[lovingboth]

I noticed it yesterday morning.

Yep - that's the level I've been getting: random firstname lastname, subject is the firstname, two lines of the text vary.

Someone's clearly gone through a list of .co.uk domains, but why? It's not trying to sell anything, but there's not enough of it to be a proper denial of service, and sending it to the same almost-certainly-not-normally-used address makes it trivial to block.