From: "Geo." 

it's an attempt to screw up the reliability of spamtrap addresses.

Geo.

"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:21:51 -0500, "Frank Haber"
>  wrote:
>
> >All these worms with good social engineering and time-limiting stinks of
> >spammer/cracker collusion to me.
>
> I am definitely seeing dictionary attacks as well with this one.
>
> - Richard

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