On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:44:23PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced > > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and > > sending out bogus messages. > > This is referred to as a "joe job" (google for more info). In your > case it is most likely not personal and is the result of a spammer > randomly choosing your address for a massive spam run. In other > cases, incredibly offensive email content is sent with someone > else's address, so that they have to deal with the backlash. > This is why I wish I could get my non-techie friends and family to use GPG. Alas, it is hopeless.
-Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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