Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Originally Posted By: FireFox31
It's apparently some kind of new trick, I just don't see the point.

It's not really a new trick -- they've been doing it for quite a while. The point of doing it is so that it's not the spammer themselves, who has to get all the rejection or invalid address notices.

Another reason is that its so the sender can have a valid looking address. They used to just make one up or just provide some throw away account but spam filters started blocking those. Their solution was to just pick some address at random from their own spam lists and then use that.