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I've got simular returned email, I think it's just way to make you open and
read that spam.
Carl
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 23:14, Bob wrote:
> Brendan B. Boerner wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> It appears that a spammer is using one of my e-m addrs to send his
> >> spam. Twice in the last several weeks I've had e-m returned to me
> >> due to the recipient being an unknown user. I've checked the message
> >> being returned and sure enough, I never sent it.
> >>
> >> I checked the domains mentioned in the e-m and they point back to the
> >> same guy in Mexico. His contact info lists a Hotmail.com account. I
> >> am contacting Hotmail to ask them to terminate his account.
> >>
> >> If anyone else is receiving similar bounces, please save and fwd them
> >> to me. If they're from the same guy it might be needed to help build
> >> a case w/the Hotmail staff and would be useful to track him if he
> >> changes his DNS registration to another provider.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brendan
> >> ---
> >> Brendan B. Boerner
> >> brendan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Karakhorum Ventures, Inc.
> >> www.Karakhorum.com
>
> You might consider doing a security examination of your computer ASAP.
> While in the past the spammer often would just put some random email
> address in their 'From' line they have now taken to more extreme measures
> as the IPs from which they have been sending their crap are being
> progressively blocked by SPEWS and other such organisations.
>
> Take a look at this article:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217
>
> Then I would suggest scanning your machines with AdAware, Spybot and TDS3
> to make sure you have no nasties sitting on them.
>
> You might also consider going onto the newsgroup
>
> news.admin.net-abuse.email.
>
> The people on that group are very knowledgeable about spammers and would
> probably be better able to track down who these characters are than will be
> Hotmail
>
> Bob
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