[thelist] Returned mail that did not originate at our organization

Max Kanat-Alexander maxka at cats.ucsc.edu
Tue Nov 19 18:32:01 CST 2002


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At 09:36 AM 11/19/2002, you wrote:
>the issue i'm having is that of returned mail that did not originate
>from within our organization.

         There is another possibility that nobody's mentioned yet.

         There's a new spammer tack where they send email with headers like
this:

         (Pretend that you're "you at yahoo.com")

         To: you at aol.com
         From: you at yahoo.com

         Of course, you at aol.com doesn't exist, so aol.com bounces back the
spammer's email to you. (And it was originally intended for you.) For the
spammer, the best part about it is that AOL doesn't preserve all of the
headers, so you can't trace where the email originally came from.

         -Max
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