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vitre0us
Joined: 22 Jul 2003
Posts: 32
Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: JoeJob |
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Seems that someone has pulled a joejob on my domain, there's been a spam message sent out to quite a few aol users, many of whom do not exist, and I'm the one getting all the Mail Server errors :)
Lucky me!
Any suggestions? I doubt there is much that can be done, but maybe you've got something I haven't thought of yet
Fooey... |
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rko
Joined: 20 Aug 2003
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Location: Hayward, CA
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If I understood this correctly, spams originated from somewhere else just faking your addresses?
There's nothing (technical) you can do about...
Risto |
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vitre0us
Joined: 22 Jul 2003
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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rko wrote: If I understood this correctly, spams originated from somewhere else just faking your addresses?
There's nothing (technical) you can do about...
Risto
exactly, the reply-to lines are random addresses at my domain |
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bji
Joined: 27 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: JoeJob |
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vitre0us wrote: Seems that someone has pulled a joejob on my domain, there's been a spam message sent out to quite a few aol users, many of whom do not exist, and I'm the one getting all the Mail Server errors :)
Lucky me!
Any suggestions? I doubt there is much that can be done, but maybe you've got something I haven't thought of yet
Fooey...
I guess you could try the FBI ... I recently read about a person who was charged by the FBI (and indicted!) for forging email addresses. He sent out tons of SPAM and the owners of the real email addresses that he had used in his forgeries received tons of bounce messages. The FBI claimed that this is a DDOS attack and charged him with some kind of computer harassment or hacking charge or something.
The FBI might not care about a small potatoes case like this (no offense :D ) but it's worth a try ... |
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tesa
Joined: 19 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject: me too |
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Hi:
I got hit too. Over the last few weeks, I've gotten hundreds of bounces. I finally put in a filter to the tune of [("From" = "postmaster" or "mailer-daemon") AND "To" NOT IN ("user1","user2"...). This is an OK kluge for a domain with limited number of users. Grrr.
Maybe if we get enough people together it'll be enough peanuts for the FBI to care?
cheers,
-Teresa |
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