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 Post subject: JoeJob
PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:14 pm 
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Seems that someone has pulled a joejob on my domain, there's been a spam message sent out to quite a few aol users, many of whom do not exist, and I'm the one getting all the Mail Server errors :)

Lucky me!

Any suggestions? I doubt there is much that can be done, but maybe you've got something I haven't thought of yet

Fooey...


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:09 pm 
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If I understood this correctly, spams originated from somewhere else just faking your addresses?

There's nothing (technical) you can do about...

Risto


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rko wrote:
If I understood this correctly, spams originated from somewhere else just faking your addresses?

There's nothing (technical) you can do about...

Risto


exactly, the reply-to lines are random addresses at my domain


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 Post subject: Re: JoeJob
PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:05 pm 
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vitre0us wrote:
Seems that someone has pulled a joejob on my domain, there's been a spam message sent out to quite a few aol users, many of whom do not exist, and I'm the one getting all the Mail Server errors :)

Lucky me!

Any suggestions? I doubt there is much that can be done, but maybe you've got something I haven't thought of yet

Fooey...


I guess you could try the FBI ... I recently read about a person who was charged by the FBI (and indicted!) for forging email addresses. He sent out tons of SPAM and the owners of the real email addresses that he had used in his forgeries received tons of bounce messages. The FBI claimed that this is a DDOS attack and charged him with some kind of computer harassment or hacking charge or something.

The FBI might not care about a small potatoes case like this (no offense :D ) but it's worth a try ...


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 Post subject: me too
PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:05 pm 
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Hi:

I got hit too. Over the last few weeks, I've gotten hundreds of bounces. I finally put in a filter to the tune of [("From" = "postmaster" or "mailer-daemon") AND "To" NOT IN ("user1","user2"...). This is an OK kluge for a domain with limited number of users. Grrr.

Maybe if we get enough people together it'll be enough peanuts for the FBI to care?

cheers,
-Teresa


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