RE: [cobalt-users] STMP Relay Spam?

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DK> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:17:45 -0400
DK> From: Dan Kriwitsky


DK> It's a good chance someone has just forged dareedplumbing.com
DK> as the reply address for some spam.

Indeed the chance is good.  As I type, some cretin somewhere is
sending spam for kiddie porn using one of our customer's email
address.  (Yes, I've emailed the FBI.  Probably will call them,
too, if I don't hear back reasonably soon.)

Judging from the return mail we've gotten, I'm 99.7% sure that
the spammer has { cracked many, many machines | found a large
list of compromised boxen } and is using them as zombies.

Network administration is getting ugly.


--
Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence

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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: A Trap <blacklist@xxxxxxxxx>
To: blacklist@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature.

These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots.
Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@xxxxxxxxx>, or you are likely to
be blocked.