[58780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Sat May 31 14:40:09 2003
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305311912310.25395-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 31 May 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> seems some spammers are using one of my personal domains as the from
> field in their emails, the local-part being random so I cant easily
> block it.
>
> Has anyone any advice on tracking them down and making them stop?
Tactical baseball bat at close range? :)
I and a number of coworkers are getting similar bounces, except the
spammers are actually using our full email addresses as the from address.
The first few cases of this, I wrote off to things like KLEZ...but
recently I've gotten actual spam bounces where my work email address was
the original from.
I suppose it could possibly still be something like KLEZ and it's grabbing
a spam from their inbox and sending that out with a forged from.
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