Spammers spoofing my "from" addr
Tom Mitchell
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 28 21:06:00 UTC 2003
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Elton Woo wrote:
> Trevor Smith wrote:
> >I occasionally get returned mail failure notices because some jackass spammer
> >has sent out mass spam using SOMENAME at haligonian.com (which is my domain) as
> >the "from" address. When he hits nonexistent "to" addresses, the bounces come
> >to me.
> >
> >
>
> >Is there anything I *can* do? Am I ultimately going to be cut
> >off from parts of the 'net because it *looks* like *I* am
> >spamming?
This is often the side effect of one or more viruses out there.
I suspect that your have a a friend with your email address in
their address book and their system has been infected with a
virus. One example is the W32.Sobig.F at mm virus.
See:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html
There is litle you can do. Sometimes there is enough information
in the headers of the bounced message to find out what machine
is sending the junk.
Because these are virus related there may well be signatures that
permit you to /dev/null the bounces if you cannot find the poor
soul with the infected machine.
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T o m M i t c h e l l
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