RE: Hijacked e-mail

[Tab Julius]

You have to disregard the "from" address.  That's totally fakeable.  The 
only thing trustworthy is the source IP address.

We have separate accounts here (like [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.).  It's amusing to see 
our tech support account receive email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with spam or 
virus in it.  Obviously we're not sending this stuff to ourselves.  Someone 
else halfway across the country or world has the email addresses and it's 
going out looking like it's FROM us and also TO us.

FWIW, if everyone remembers we shifted to allowing only lingo-l members to 
post when we would occasionally get 1 spam every couple of weeks.  It 
really annoyed everyone, so we made the member-only post 
requirement.  Still, I have to review the quarantined messages looking for 
valid users using the wrong account.  Gradually it moved to one spam a 
week, then maybe one spam a day.

The other day I had one valid user problem, and I think some twenty 
spams.  This is out of control.  The amount of spams going to the list was 
exceeding the list activity itself for that day.

Personally I get one or two HUNDRED a day.  Some of them supposedly from 
ourselves! :)  It's crazy.

- Tab

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