RE: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Nah, some worm infected windows user has your address in their outlook, most modern worms fakes all sending info, so the mail appears to have originated from you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:30:34PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Spammers forge sender addresses nowadays. There's not much you can do, unfortunately, although by the same token it's unlikely to do you any harm. (Also, sometimes spam arrives formatted to look like bounce messages.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:30:34PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Probably a spammer using you email as sender or reply-to address. Not much you can do about it. I once got 3 bounces like that! -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://sights.seindal.dk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:30, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Probably a spammer using your adress as the reply-to. You can try to trace it back if you get a DSN notice that includes full headers of the original mail... otherwise... you're out of luck. These things are happening more often lately. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
Ren? Seindal sez: } On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:30:34PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: } I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly } sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of } attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is } happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? } } Probably a spammer using you email as sender or reply-to address. Not } much you can do about it. I once got 3 bounces like that! On /. today: http://www.techdirt.com/fotr/20030211/0230225_F.shtml } Ren? Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://sights.seindal.dk/ --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:53:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Spammers forge sender addresses nowadays. There's not much you can do, unfortunately, although by the same token it's unlikely to do you any harm. it may not be a complete solution, but it's worth pointing out that if you gpg sign every email you send, those messages are more easily identifiable as spam... sean msg30501/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:30:34PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Spammer sending as you, possibly. Might want to ask for advice on nntp://news.spamcop.net/spamcop or nntp://news.spamcop.net/spamcop.geeks on how to handle this. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg30510/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On 13 Feb 2003, Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:30, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Probably a spammer using your adress as the reply-to. You can try to trace it back if you get a DSN notice that includes full headers of the original mail... otherwise... you're out of luck. These things are happening more often lately. Thanks to everyone for replies and some interesting links. Pretty much confirms what I suspected. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On /. today: http://www.techdirt.com/fotr/20030211/0230225_F.shtml That's nothing new. Has been going on for years. There's even a name for it: you have been 'joe-jobbed'. Mike. -- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job -- Douglas Adams. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
