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What a **** week
After losing a wad of dosh to a credit card fraudster, some asshole is now
using my domain suffix ) to splatter out shed loads of spam e mails. You can recognise them from the bit before the @ as it is usually just a sequence of random characters. Please be assured that this **** is NOT coming from me. Has anyone else had the pleasure of having this happen to them ? If so, how long did it go on for and is there anything you can do to stop it. My domain host and ISP will probably get ****ed off with it eventually and probably shut me down. Ho Hum. -- Ally Maxwell Well-Tech Computer Centre www.wcc-ltd.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------- Cases, CD Drives, Hard Drives, Memory, Modems, Motherboards, Multimedia, Networking, Printers, Processors, Scanners, Video Cards. Buy Securely, Online. www.wcc-ltd.co.uk |
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I'm having the same problem
Craig |
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Has anyone else had the pleasure of having this happen to them ? If so, how
long did it go on for and is there anything you can do to stop it. My domain host and ISP will probably get ****ed off with it eventually and probably shut me down. Ho Hum. I`ve had a "similar" experience twice where the email address you see in the header has been given as the "reply to" and "from" address in spam mails (forged headers obviously). IME you`ll see 300+ emails per hour bounced "back" from all the unknown addresses on the spam lists for ~2 days and then it`ll gradually slow down over a week or so. Pain in the ass, but as long as your ISP knows you aren`t the cause there shouldn`t be too much of a problem. What I might suggest is a warning on your site to say your email address is currently under a spam attack and can customers please contact you by phone for the time being. Less chance of losing custom that way, and they`ll know you still want their trade (and aren`t ignoring emails, just that they might get lost in the spam) If you have specific email addresses ie. sales@ help@ support@ then perhaps mailwasher can help - there`s a filter (switched off by default) where you can tell it to mark for deletion any mail not "to" you at any of the addresses you list. The recent versions of mailwasher are commercial, and the demo only supports one email address IIRC, but I have an old beta around that worked fine 99% of the time (occasional ctrl-alt-del if if threw a hissy fit) which works fine with multiple accounts. Drop me a line if you need it ! The email address shown is valid, but for the purposes of spam avoidance i`m sorely tempted to start filtering anything without a specific word in the subject (`cos it`s getting silly now, i`m still getting ~150-250 a day) |
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Hi Ally,
Had the same problems a few months ago. Someone hi-jacked my domain name aquila.to ( yes we are in the uk :-) ) and was sending spams as "random characters" @aquila.to. For a week I got loads of bounce reports and a few unsubsribe requests, usually about 200 per day. After a week it all stopped as suddenly as it started. It was doubly annoying for me as the week it happened I was on holiday and was checking emails via a 28.8k modem on a notebook. Do you think the fraud was connected with the spammer, or was that just a contribution to the bad week? Good luck Richard _______________________________ www.e-aquila.com _______________________________ "Well-Tech Computer Centre" wrote in message ... After losing a wad of dosh to a credit card fraudster, some asshole is now using my domain suffix ) to splatter out shed loads of spam e mails. You can recognise them from the bit before the @ as it is usually just a sequence of random characters. Please be assured that this **** is NOT coming from me. Has anyone else had the pleasure of having this happen to them ? If so, how long did it go on for and is there anything you can do to stop it. My domain host and ISP will probably get ****ed off with it eventually and probably shut me down. Ho Hum. -- Ally Maxwell Well-Tech Computer Centre www.wcc-ltd.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------- Cases, CD Drives, Hard Drives, Memory, Modems, Motherboards, Multimedia, Networking, Printers, Processors, Scanners, Video Cards. Buy Securely, Online. www.wcc-ltd.co.uk |
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"Well-Tech Computer Centre" wrote in message ... After losing a wad of dosh to a credit card fraudster, yep, do you bother reporting it to cops? |
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The simplest thing to do on newsgroups is to put a dud address in the
From: header but put a valid email address in the Reply-to: header. I`ve tended to use the email address I use on newsgroups for any iffy sounding crap i`ve needed on a temporary basis, offers, competition entries etc. so I suppose it was bound to get out eventually. Funny how some ISPs suffer far worse than others with spam though - i`ve been on Pipex since February, and had one solitary spam (which I bounced) yet my btinternet accounts (2 of), lineone, and virgin accounts are virtual war zones with spam :-} |
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In article , says...
In article subject What a **** week in uk.adverts.computer on Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Colin Wilson writes The email address shown is valid, but for the purposes of spam avoidance i`m sorely tempted to start filtering anything without a specific word in the subject (`cos it`s getting silly now, i`m still getting ~150-250 a day) The simplest thing to do on newsgroups is to put a dud address in the From: header but put a valid email address in the Reply-to: header. Spammers rarely look beyond the From address (as they do not generally download full article headers), but anyone replying to your article, with any but the lamest of news/email programs, will automatically get the genuine address. I use news.cis.dfn.de and they don't allow a different address in the 'From:' even if it's for a purpose such as spam-avoidance, which is why I created a hotmail address for it. I check it from time to time as some can't see my real address listed in my sig, but then Hotmail's a victim of their own idiocy the way they let the Junk Mail box fill up with spam and then claim that's part of the used storage. I just deleted all mine and it left 1% in the main inbox. -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 935 DVDs, 258 games, 33 videos, 67 cinema films, 69 CDs, laserdiscs & news /* tomb raider angel of darkness, hulk, 24, speed kings, hitcher, phone booth TV Hates U: BBC2 & UK Gold: http://dvdfever.co.uk/pressrel/tvhatesu.shtml Big Brother 4 - http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/bigbro4.shtml |
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In article , Dom Robinson
writes I use news.cis.dfn.de and they don't allow a different address in the 'From:' even if it's for a purpose such as spam-avoidance, which is why I created a hotmail address for it. They don't? Check my headers -- No-one |
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In article subject What a
**** week in uk.adverts.computer on Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Dom Robinson writes In article , says... The simplest thing to do on newsgroups is to put a dud address in the From: header but put a valid email address in the Reply-to: header. Spammers rarely look beyond the From address (as they do not generally download full article headers), but anyone replying to your article, with any but the lamest of news/email programs, will automatically get the genuine address. I use news.cis.dfn.de and they don't allow a different address in the 'From:' even if it's for a purpose such as spam-avoidance, which is why I created a hotmail address for it. I also use news.cis.dfn.de, and they definitely do. They also recommend as a valid anti spam address, which is what I use as my From: address -- John Blundell Reply-to: address is valid. Antispam From: address |
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