[CLUE-Tech] email address hijacked by spammers

[Carl Schelin]

I've actually had this happen to one of my oldest
accounts. I really didn't want to lose the account so
I just filtered the incoming messages as if they were
spam. In a few days it was clear again. I suspect the
spammers just add whatever name they can to the froms.
Most of the clueful folks just ignore them or filter
them appropriately (I always look for internal
spamming/viruses so I can *clickity-click* them :-)

Give it a week before you make a hasty decision. Pay
attention to upstream threats though. Hopefully the
folks are clueful enough to realize what happened and
ignore complaints.

Carl

--- Dan Harris <coronadh at coronasolutions.com> wrote:
> Well, the unthinkable has finally happened to me. 
> I've had this email 
> address for nearly 7 years now and I've been able to
> cope with all the 
> spam I get using spamassassin and thunderbird
> filters, but this is 
> different.  It appears that last night some
> spammer(s) began using my 
> address as the 'From' on their spams. 


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