Returned mail virusses?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 5 16:24:49 UTC 2005


From: "Andy Green" <andy at warmcat.com>

> Andy Pieters wrote:
> 
> | Is anybody else seeing these returned mail errors with spam inside?
> 
> The spammer sent the spam to the victim as if it came From: you
> according to the headers.  The crappy virus / antispam software at the
> victim decides to tell "the sender", ie, it uses your forged email
> address, that there is a problem with the mail.

Anti-spam people call this a "Joe Job". It is a known and highly annoying
problem.

{^_^}




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