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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Spam help needed... WHAT'S GOING ON??? (MaaMaw)
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, at 2:28 p.m.
> I am being BOMBARDED with spam "from" my own domain:
> service@americazooshops.com
> administrator...
> admin...
> mail...
> info...
Well, you know the "from" field is trivially forged, so no competent provider will conclude you're sending them.
But this is the mark of spamming software (spamware) that is trying to sneak past some filters that insist that the "from" address at least have a good domain name in it. The domain of the recipient is guaranteed to be valid, so they often forge that. The front part (admin, info, etc.) don't matter to the filters at some ISPs. Just the existence of the right hand side.
Viruses also do this.
> I thought I had only one encrypted email address listed on the entire
> site, but now that I look, I see I don't have *ANY* email addresses listed
> (shame on me).
> The subjects of the messages are:
> Important Notification
> Your Email Account is Suspended
> Notice of Account Limitation
> Notice: *Last* Warning
> DETECTED: Online User Violation
> etc.
> Some are gibberish (letters and symbols all mashed together), but most are
> trying to get me to open an attachment.
This is definitely a virus payload.
> Not only am I not opening the attachments (well duh), but I'm not even
> opening the emails -- just previewing them.
Hmmm, if you're using Outlook, previewing them is also risky. And if you're allowing HTML emails to even partially render (so you can preview them), some spammers embed tracking bugs with codes in the URLs to let them know WHO opened their spam and WHEN.
> If they're just coming to me, that's okay -- I'll set them all up to self
> destruct.
> But do I need to be worried that they are going out to other people in my
> name??
Viruses ALWAYS forge the from address nowadays, so there's no way to prevent it. All you can do is make sure you have competent providers (Cox for bandwidth at home, plus whoever registers and hosts your domains) who won't be fooled if somebody reports "your" spam to the wrong place for investigation.
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