"Stop Spamming" Scam?

[Cameron Harr]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: pluglist-admin at plug.org [mailto:pluglist-admin at plug.org] On Behalf
>Of Barry Roberts
>Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:20 PM
>To: plug
>Subject: "Stop Spamming" Scam?
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>I just got back from a week-long vacation, and I had to (quite rude)
>messages in my inbox from companies demanding that I stop spamming
>them.  One even said thay had signed me up on 500 spam lists.
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>This was on my work e-mail address.  Not only have I never spammed,
>but I've certainly never done it from work.
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>I assumed at first that perhaps these companies were so clueless that
>they didn't know what a forged header looked like.  But then I noticed
>that both messages linked to online payment companies.
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>Are these companies (stormpay.com and evocash.com) actually hoping
>that I'll contact them about this, and end up being a customer?  Or
>are they just trying to drive traffic to their sites?  I don't get it.
>Does anybody know what the scam here is?
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>Thanks,
>Barry Roberts
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It looks like you're not alone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/20/technology/20SPAM.html?th