[CLUE-Tech] email address hijacked by spammers
Jeff Falgout
jfalgout at co.jefferson.co.us
Tue Mar 30 21:59:04 MST 2004
>>> coronadh at coronasolutions.com 03/30/04 5:26 PM >>>
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.
So today, I am getting bombarded with 'recipient not found' and 'this
message was rejected because it is spam' messages. I don't know who I'm
more pissed off at, the spammer(s) who hijacked my email or the idiots
who reply to every spam message saying "this is spam".. You'd think that
if they were smart enough to set up a spam filter that they would
realize that spammers FORGE the From address and not bother replying to
it.. *sigh*. The ones that did send me a rejection sometimes included
the headers of the sent message which let me see what hosts were
originating the messages. However, by the time I get the rejections and
start trying to investigate those hosts, they have already pulled the
plug and switched IP addresses.
This is driving me NUTS. I can deal with spam, but this crap is over my
limit of tolerance.
Anyway, before I kill this address, which has a mind boggling number of
important ties to it including domain registrations and list servers, I
wanted to solicit some opions about what other people may have done in
this situation..
I'm considering doing to the following:
A) wait and see if they give up using my address ( I assume this is not
likely to happen )
>>>>>>>>>>>
You're the victim of a "Joe Job". Not much you can
really do except ride it out. Hopefully they'll use your email for just
a short time.
Hang in there and brush up on your MUA filtering rules.
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