On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:01:25 Erik Dasque wrote: > Hi all, > > it's actually not that new since it's been happening for a few years > on my personal email but it has invaded work too and I was wondering > what your thoughts were about it. I don't know how to call it
joe-jobing (what the spammer does) or backscatter (what the defect email servers do) > but essentially it comes from spammers using my work or personal email > addresses to send spam email. > From what I can see, they are not using > my SMTP server or anything like that, they're just forging the From/ > Reply-To to send email 'as me'. yup. > > As a result of those thousands (millions) of Spam emails sent 'by > me', I get a hefty number of undeliverable email notices in my inbox > (from the thousands of invalid address in the spammer address book). > It goes in waves, sometimes I'll go months without any and all of a > sudden I'll find 500 in my inbox. > > I realize this is a list about s.a. but since this is spam related > though not directly spam, I was wondering what you guys thought about > it and do about it if it happens to you. http://www.openspf.org/ for avoiding getting joe-jobed http://www.backscatterer.org/ for blocking the "undeliverd" reports > It bothered me in my > personal email but it bothers a hundred people at work. I am guessing > it doesn't help white-listing my domain name and many of our normal > emails might get marked as spam as a result. -- best regards Arvid Ephraim Picciani
