Someone using my email address to spam?

Started by MN Dave, September 30, 2009, 04:32:11 AM

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drogulus

#40
September 30, 2009, 07:10:42 PM

     For the Daves:

     
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0
      
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0

Mullvad 14.5.8

Bogey

#41
September 30, 2009, 07:29:51 PM
Happy birthday, Dave!

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Tapio Dmitriyevich

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September 30, 2009, 08:16:52 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on September 30, 2009, 04:32:11 AMI'm getting undeliverable returned email of spam stuff I never sent.

Well, this is fun with SMTP. Welcome to the Internet.

MN Dave

#43
October 01, 2009, 06:17:15 AM
Thanks for the birthday wishes, guys.

SMTP?

Tapio Dmitriyevich

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October 01, 2009, 07:15:36 AM Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 07:30:52 AM by Wurstwasser
Quote from: SonicMan on September 30, 2009, 05:43:25 AMSorry, Dave, did not know (or remember) what brand machine you were using - ignore my post, should not be an issue.

I'm on my 'old' Linux (Ubuntu) laptop at the moment - so, no need to worry about malware, either!

Let us know 'what' you discover, though - Dave

Malware doesn't have to be on Daves computer, it could be on any computer where Daves email adress is on. (This is just one possibility, but a probable one). So theres malware harvesting email adresses from the computer and sending emails from that computer. If it only sends 2 per second, this already is 7200/h. With Sender and recipient names maybe chosen randomly from the harvested adresses, who cares, no one should take this personally.
Very easily spoken, due to the smtp protocol, "From", "Reply-To", "To", "Cc" etc are only content of the mail but need not correspond with the real sender and recipients. For instance I can send a Mail as Anton Bruckner, Sender appears as Nietzsche, Recipient appears as Allan Pettersson, but there are five recipients except Allan Pettersson, furthermore, delivery error messages go to Richard Wagner. Fun with SMTP! :D

The client-server talk on the wiki page will help you understanding about your problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp#SMTP_transport_example

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp

I'm receiving ~1500 to 8000 Mails per month and couldn't care less if a mail tells I'm the sender or receiver or whatever. BTW I'm routing my mail through spamfence.net - maybe someone remembers the worm "sven" a couple of years ago. Usenet citizens suddenly received tons of spam because of this. From this day on I started filtering with spamfence. Some stuff goes through, but it doesn't produce false positives. I can really recommend it and I know many usenet veterans rely on it. Free for personal use.

The correct answer to Daves question:
QuoteWhat does one do about this shit?

is: Don't care, treat it as spam.
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