Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:48 -0500 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages Message-ID: <20081016120648.17qwm4xcs6kgwg884@intranet.casasponti.net> In-Reply-To: <20081016162641.GA16819@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <20081016090102.17qwm4xcs6f4so8ok@intranet.casasponti.net> <20081016162641.GA16819@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> escribi=F3: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, eculp@casasponti.net wrote: >> In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from >> email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my >> email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. >> The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that >> others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a >> solution that I don't have. > > Did these come from Barracuda boxes? > > Blowback like this is hardly new or legitimate as the From and Sender > header addresses are often (usually) forged in spam, and it does not do > anything useful to reply to them. The forged addresses may just be > something scraped from the address book of a machine running the Microsoft > virus, Windows, or a deliberate ``Joe Job'' where a spammer is targeting > somebody who may have caused them problems. It had just got up this morning and found my mailbox full of these and =20 lost my cool. I probably sent the email too quickly. Thanks for =20 helping me get it together. ed > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 > Fax: (206) 232-9186 > > Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. > -- Ralph Waldo Emerson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >
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