so it looks like not only am i getting inundated with spam, some spammer has now taken to faking my domain name as a return address while SENDING THEIR SPAM. thus i’m getting bounces from around the world from mail daemons complaining about spam or failed attempts to send penny stock pitches from addresses like blsdfh[(at)]sassyass.net.
i don’t know if there’s anything i can do about this other than wait for the forces that be to mistakenly start blocking all mail from my domain name, if not the whole domain name itself.
soon we will be reduced to guerrilla pirate blogging via trained pigeons or something.
in the meantime, anyone wanna buy a monkey?
Posted at January 4, 2007 10:56 AMI had a similar situation with my domain a couple years ago. One morning I had 800-some messages in my Inbox. Fortunately, I quickly found that they all used the same spoofed address (hawk147 or something like that, IIRC), so I was able to set a filter to throw all of that into a separate folder for eventual deletion. Sounds like you have a more creative foe, unfortunately, if they are using different fake identities.
It’s something spammers do. They spoof the From-address, and then you (lucky you) get the rafts of bounces (since they gotta go somewhere).
If your experience is like mine, it’s like a hurricane. It comes and wreaks its havoc and a few days later, it’s over and you just finish cleaning up.
(BTW, I came across you via ohbejuan, in case you are wondering who the hell I am.)
Posted by: cornellbox at January 5, 2007 1:14 PMdem spammers iz clever. thanks for the war story, hopefully my mailbox won’t be jammed full of bounces when i get back…
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