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RE: [cobalt-users] How am I getting spammed?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] How am I getting spammed?
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Sep 26 22:28:54 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I have a concern over the increasing amount of spam me and my clients seem
> to be getting, and some of them come through as below, looking as if there
> is a mailing list running on my Raq. There are no authorised list on the
> machine at all, so could it just be a tricky alias, or is someone
> hacked in
> and using my sendmail.
>
> Any advice or comments on what is happening, and how I can stop
> it (whether
> is is coming from our machine or not) would be greatly appreciated.
>
> This is a header from one such dodgy spam.
>
>
> From: MAGIC-WEB <magic_web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:43:58 +0100
> To: MAGIC-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SEXSITE NO.1 .. MEGAWEB-SEX !
>
That's not a header. It's trivial to forge the From address on an email and
much bulk email software will do that. See http://mail.abuse.net
http://www.mail-abuse.org for some links. Or
news://news.admin.net-abuse.email
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Dan Kriwitsky