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

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Tue Nov 19 18:54:00 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Kanat-Alexander [mailto:maxka at cats.ucsc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:31 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Returned mail that did not originate at 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.

sneeky bastards!

that is a very good idea, and sounds likely.

when we get another email like the one in question i'll look into that
being a possibility and see if it makes sense.


thanks,
chris.



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