[imp] hardening imp against spammers

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Kevin Myer wrote:

> I guess I missed something in this thread - how is it that spammers are
> getting access to IMP in the first place?

They're signing up for accounts using stolen credit cards / credit card
info.  I don't know how they get it, but they have card numbers,
expiration dates, CVV2 codes from the backs of the cards, and the billing
address info.

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