As part of my Children with Diabetes web site, I run a web-mail service called cwdMail (www.cwdmail.com) that provides free accounts for users of CWD. In about mid-December, some Nigerian fraud spammers found the service and began creating accounts manually, including matching a difficult-to-read alpha-numeric GIF to confirm that a human was creating the account.
I noticed the spamming about three days ago and deleted probably 30 accounts yesterday when I noticed bounces coming back. I have configured cwdmail.com outbound mail to go through my IMGate servers, which are pretty good at catching that crap. (The Declude junk mail did not stop them at all.) And I've shut down automatic web-based account creation. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem -- that is, Nigerian fraud spammers signing up for webmail accounts and using them to spam? If so, have you found some way of vetting accounts as they are created to minimize this risk? Or is it simply hopeless? Jeff Hitchcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Children with Diabetes - http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
