It's just getting ridicules not to mention what it cost all of us in the end. And might I add doesn't make since. I mean, they spam selling something with no real contact but a "spoofed one" or real website to reach (most of the time). I placed an web appliance at my work place and catch an average of 52000 in 7 days. My ISP has spam filters yet I still receive a number a day. Now I am also the "return to sender" because of email spoofing. I get about 40-50 returned to sender, or can't deliver emails (not to mention what my ISP catches). There is not a dam thing I can do about it.
Let add to this the problem for legit company's who have this done to them and they are placed on the "blacklist". They are victims of this abuse that causes undo problems with their business affairs and it backlashes to their clients. I often have to help fight for some of our clients who have been victimized this way. They are not spammers but their addresses have been spoofed and blacklisted and now any client who uses spam blacklist block their legit address and miss their business correspondence. As for myself I am stuck with the pain of removing my email and setting up another one and the pain of contacting all correspondences who have that one to change it to the new one, etc., etc.. Or I could attempt to figure out the real senders, send abuse email out and hope someone would answer and help. Doubt that would work. Example: _________- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:12:27 +0000 From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unknown local-part "byoder" in domain "bt.net" ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [217.35.209.184] (helo=insmtp22.bt.net) by insmtp01.ukcore.bt.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1CUOfh-000628-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:12:25 +0000 Received: from [211.186.238.119] (helo=therightmoment.com) by insmtp22.bt.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1CUOTM-00043p-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:59:40 +0000 Received: from fidnet.com (fidnet.com.mail5.psmtp.com [64.18.5.10]) by therightmoment.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3097F4FF8C for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:09:31 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Tickled B. Pulsar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Byoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?VmFyaW91cyBQaWxscywgTG93IHJhdGVzLCBtb25leWJhY2sgZ3VhcmFu?= =?iso-8859-1?B?dGVlISA=?= Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:09:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset=iso-8859-1; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_DDA5806C.B53BEAE9" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 _______________ The email message that was enclosed for these headers was a complete non sense one full of meaniless verbage like: __________________- <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=3d#996666 height=3d22> <DIV align=3dcenter><SPAN class=3dstyle13>Once something becomes di= scernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it=2e We can de= stroy it=2e</SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=3d0 cellPadding=3d0 width=3d"100%" border=3d0> <TBODY> __________________ We talk about the scare of government control. Someone then tell me who else has the power to step in and stop the viral and spam. Who else has the money to back massive counter measures to put a stop to it all. I'm I just being too critical and a doom and gloom user. FYI: Yes I have ensured that I'm not zombified. I then tested again by turning off my internet use for two days and still received returns for those days. I clean machines for things like this for a living. Thanks for asking. thank you Randall M _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
