[thelist] OT - Someone Is Using My Email Address For Spam

Kid Stevens kstevens89 at comcast.net
Sat Aug 24 12:12:01 CDT 2002


Barring the Klez virus.  Is your e-mail address on your website in a mailto:?

Is there a form on your site?

If you have one of the e-mails and can see the whole header and body
then you can hammer back with or without your ISPs help.  Go to
Spamcop.net and sign up for a free or paid account.  After you sign
up then you log in and paste the whole message including headers into
the box and hit submit.

Spamcop does the work for you of reading the header and finding the
real source by running nslookups and traceroutes to every bit of the
code in the header.  This is pretty painless and can get the Spammer
shut down for a while.

At 3:17 AM +0930 8/24/02, Chris wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This morning when I checked my email I recieve quite a few 'message
>undeliverable' return emails from my email provider's Mailer Daemon which
>had been headed for email addresses that I do not know, and did not send to.
>
>Upon further investigation, I have determined that someone has been using my
>email address in order to send mail using my email provider's SMTP server. I
>have no idea how many messages have been sent already.
>
>I have the hostname and IP of the host that these messages apparently
>originated from. I don't think that this was a major spam incident as the
>sender was apparently only using MS OE (although this probably could be
>faked easy enough).
>
>Could anyone give me any advice on how to proceed with this matter.
>
>Regards,
>Chris
>
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Kid Stevens

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