bathswife
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1 edit | [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam I have one permanent email address that I've used since 1994. That means that I get a whole lot of spam. I'm used to that and usually I just delete them though once in a while I use my spamcop account to turn them in.
But just recently I've realized that someone is faking my email address and using it to send spam because I am getting about a hundred or so emails a day from various ISP's saying my message wasn't delivered because it was spam. The messages that weren't delivered are obviously not from me, they just use my email address in the "reply-to" on the headers. Is there anything I can do or is there anything I should do about this? The email address is a university address.
Thanks for any info.
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Doctor Olds
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clubs: | Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam Nothing you can really do but either change emails or wait it out. | |
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CurtesyFlush
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bathswife
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clubs: | Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam Okay, thanks. I feel better about it at least. | |
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam I agree with the others. Spammers will rotate the fake from address frequenlty, as it can be used as a filtering field. The time limit is usually not more than several days. Filter the return failure notifications in the interim, and you should be fine within a few days to a week at most.
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joako
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/dev/null | It is called Backscatter
You should treat it as any other spam and report the sending server.
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Doctor Olds
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam said by joako  :It is called BackscatterYou should treat it as any other spam and report the sending server. From the link you provided......
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The judgement call for what to do with undelivered mail is not simple. Best practice is, wherever possible, to reject the spam at the boundary and be done with it. The alternative is to discard spam that has already been received, and try to report non-delivery only to plausible senders.
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joako
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam It doesn't negate the fact that the OP is receiving unwanted and unsolicited email messages (aka spam).
You can A) sit around and do nothing B) try to do something and maybe one day administrators will be persuaded to correctly configure their email servers.
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webWizard
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Denver, CO | I have been getting the occasional "delivery failure" messages for a few months now, but yesterday I had a first: A spam message purportedly from myself. | |
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pcdebb
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam said by Doctor Olds :said by webWizard :but yesterday I had a first: A spam message purportedly from myself. I've had 4 of those in the last 24 hours. Stupid subjects like: "We got your home video." "We have your shaming pics." well since you supposedly work for so many different agencies doing wrong, they've decided to tape you and your deceiving ways 
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Doctor Olds
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam said by pcdebb :said by Doctor Olds :I've had 4 of those in the last 24 hours. Stupid subjects like: "We got your home video." "We have your shaming pics." well since you supposedly work for so many different agencies doing wrong, they've decided to tape you and your deceiving ways Ah heck, now they have gone into the archives.... My divorce was final in 1994.
Newest subject:
"What can be done with your wife?"
They all seem to advertise this company:
• Colorgraphic-Com, Inc.
• 1500 Capital Blvd
• Raleigh, NC 27603
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starreem
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam Wow, I drive by that company almost everyday, and I have thought it might be easier to use them rather than another graphics company farther up the road.
Knowing they hire a spam marketing service, I will now avoid them at all costs.
said by Doctor Olds :... They all seem to advertise this company: • Colorgraphic-Com, Inc. • 1500 Capital Blvd • Raleigh, NC 27603
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam You should stop in and tell the owner exactly that -- you never give spammers any of your money.
said by starreem :Wow, I drive by that company almost everyday, and I have thought it might be easier to use them rather than another graphics company farther up the road. Knowing they hire a spam marketing service, I will now avoid them at all costs. said by Doctor Olds :... They all seem to advertise this company: • Colorgraphic-Com, Inc. • 1500 Capital Blvd • Raleigh, NC 27603 | |
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NormanS
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| Since the summer of 2003 I've had at least two email addresses forged by spammers. The first was a Yahoo! Mail address, and I was getting backscatter for a month. It was bad the first week, but tapered off. After six weeks it was over.
The next was my hobby domain; the spammers were inventing non-existent users in my domain, so my server was rejecting the bounces (with a "554, user not known" error). This event doesn't last as long, but recurs about once a year.
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tweakster
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| If you get spam, report it immediately!! Look in the header and see who is the offending ip. forward it to spam@uce.gov the sending isp and the return isp email addresses to the abuse departments. most likely att, msn and google. I GET HARDLY ANY SPAM. I think I'm on a spammers blacklist now because I do this with every spam I get. | |
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bathswife
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam The mails that appeared to be bouncing back to me that didn't actually originate at my email address were impossible to turn into spamcop. If I turned it into spamcop, the email address in the headers would be the email address that the forger of my email address sent the spam to which wouldn't work right.
I've tried several different things. Now I am getting spam emails that like the poster above, appear to be from me. It's very aggravating. But it has calmed down a little bit.
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| | NormanS
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam said by bathswife :The mails that appeared to be bouncing back to me that didn't actually originate at my email address were impossible to turn into spamcop. Then you don't understand how Spamcop works (unless I don't understand what you just wrote). Spamcop does not work with email addresses, it works with IP addresses. It reports abusive IP addresses to the owners of the IP address blocks as abuse. Bounces to forged email addresses are called, "Backscatter", and are reportable to Spamcop as abuse. Spamcop notifies the senders of the backscatter that abuse is propagating from their servers.
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bathswife
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam I think I understand what you are saying. I thought that the headers I gathered from that 'backscatter' would be from the ISP that rejected the spam. I am not that saavy about spam, but try my best. I'll try again and see if I can figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong.
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| Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam said by bathswife :I think I understand what you are saying. I thought that the headers I gathered from that 'backscatter' would be from the ISP that rejected the spam. If you got the "reject" notice, the sending ISP did not "reject" the spam. Rejection happens during the SMTP transaction, and any "bounce" would be generated by the mail agent which was rejected. You don't care if the "bounce source" is notified of abuse. If they first accepted the spam, then closed the SMTP connection, then decided that they couldn't deliver the email for policy reasons, then created a Delivery Failure Notice to return to the putative sender (the "MAIL FROM:", which is eminently forgable), they are behaving in an abusive manner, and deserve whatever happens when Spamcop notifies of that abuse.
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