Spammers passing as M2 users
I have noticed that I have been getting very much more spam than usual the last few weeks. Someone is apparently wanting a new bot-net very much. Anyhow, I have also noticed that much spam is sent with the following footer:
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Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Anyone using Opera M2 will recognise this default footer. Studying these emails' headers revels that the User-Agent: [is indeed] Opera Mail/9.50
. The address formatting is, however, revealing that the messages are probably not sent using Opera.
Update
Opera's press release has a whole lot more details.
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