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RE: [PLUG] OT: Imaginet SPAMambush
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Please forward this email to one of the spamassassin or razor lists.
http://spamassassin.taint.org/
http://razor.sourceforge.net/community/index.html
-zeek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Brosius
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:32 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Imaginet SPAMambush
>
>
> "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.
>
> --
> Kevin Brosius
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