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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Help - Roadie, Mel, call out the Cavalry (Dennis Bevers)
Friday, 21 July 2006, at 8:00 a.m.
> For the past year or more, I have received a number of bounced/rejected
> emails every day from spam that was sent using my website URL in the
> sending email. I don't recall the term for this, but it was tolerable. It
> was a nuisance, but it was manageable.
It's called blowback. The spammers use domains that resolve (i.e.: are valid) in their forged "from" fields to get past filters.
> BUT, today the floodgates opened, and my website is now a spam-meister.
> The rejection/underliverable notices are forwarding into my primary inbox
> and it is overflowing.
But the messages usually have some common characteristic, like using the word "reject" or "undeliverable" in the subject, so you can apply a quick filter rule at your end to nuke them. Even if you have to stay logged in to get the filter to work if it's on your client side. A better filter would be on the ISP's side, so you never see 'em.
> In less that 24 hours, I have receive over 4000 rejection notices, along
> with out-of-office autoresponses.
I haven't seen more than 10000 a day on any of my accounts, but that was a straight-up DDOS attack, not blowback. Some of my buddies have been with with 10000 an hour. Filters work fine.
> It's blocking my inbox at times, and requiring me to manually go through
> deleting 20 email at a time, while visually screening for the one
> legitimate post out of every 60 or so.
Are you on a webmail interface, or POP?
> Every other time I hit the delete button, 2 to 8 more rejects are added.
> My ISP hasn't contacted me as yet, probably because the splicing of my
> email address is so obvious. So, I don't have to worry about losing my
> internet service at the moment, but if I stay off-line for any length of
> time, it will flood my inbox again, and I'll lose legitimate email.
If you or the ISP can add a filter rule at their side, you can get offline for a while. Otherwise you need to set up a PC to stay on top of it, constantly on-line, and discard them when you get them with a local filter rule. Assuming you're on a POP account, not strictly web mail.
What's the nature of the spam, anyway? The same pitch, or rotating subjects? Most of the real professionals already know they're criminals, but I might be able to find out the name of the perp, but it won't do you a lot of good if it's a Russian or Romanian.
Bill
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