[58781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny Abello)
Sat May 31 14:48:15 2003
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:45:49 -0400
To: jlewis@lewis.org
From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305311434190.19805-100000@redhat1.mmaero.co
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 02:39 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
>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.
There are known spamming viruses making their rounds that I believe behave
like klez and others that use known email addresses. A couple of our
customers have been infected by them and have had their computers
unknowingly sending out spam.
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