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Re: [PLUG] OT: Imaginet SPAMambush
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"Arthur S. Alexion" wrote:
>
> I recently got a message from the above server/filtering service
> indicating that a piece of mail that I allegedly sent, with a common
> spam subject ("Work from home . . . ") haad been sent to one of their
> subscribers. Apparently the way the system works, the spam gets
> intercepted, and a message is sent to the sender to confirm that it is
> a real address. I would have to manually visit a URL to release and
> finish sending the message. Apparently a spammer is using my address.
>
> Is this common? I suppose I would have no way of knowing had not this
> filter been set up. Knowing this, is there anything I can/should do?
Seems to be getting more common. I've started to get about one of these
a week, over the last month or two. It seems the spammers are starting
to use real addresses in the from field. A bunch of the spam filters
aren't smart enough to check the headers and see that you didn't send
it, they just bounce it back to the from address.
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Kevin Brosius
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