Hi Nick: I have similar, but business wide more serious, issue of forging the emails and send as spam to other web sides. I do not have time to investigate this issue yet since we are still converting everything to Google infrastructure using GAE and gmail, and will leverage Google Wave.
Issue: We have 3 domain names. 1 domain name received a lot of spam mail and was forged to send spam mail to others many years ago. I converted my mail services for sending and receiving to gmail and moved the domain name to GoDaddy. The received and sending spam mails become less, but still there. The other 2 domain names are recent in the past 2-3 years using GoDaddy DNS and google mail services right from the beginning. Recently, some forged emails using the 3 domain names with different user names are sent to various sites. I configure gmail to received all mails under the domain names but not delivered to legitimate users to one account, and see the spam and undelivered mails to direct users to their web sites in Russia and China. The question are (1) How can they forge the domain name with their faked user names and send emails to spam others which will definitely damage our domain names? (2) What can i do to prevent this? In the near future, DNS and simple public web sites are only 2 things we use from GoDaddy; the web sites are used for publishing XML configurations for Google gadgets and for online backups of live services from google. Thanks BaTien DBGROUPS and BudhNet On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:26 +0100, Nick Johnson (Google) wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Paul NOSPAM<jelst...@netzero.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a yahoo e-mail account, where I am getting TONS of spam, that > > are advertising a website like this - > > http://caatainc1.appspot.com/ > > > > I traced the domain back to Google, and called them, because sending > > dozens of e-mails resulted in nothing happening. Guess what? > > Calling them does no good either!! I did get a little girl, who > > directed me to the APPSPOT.com site, where I could complain about the > > spam, but guess what? there is NO contact information for reporting > > this crap!! > > We have an abuse report form, here: > http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineContact > > Note that simply being linked to in spam is not itself in violation of > our terms of service - nobody can control who links to them - but it's > possible this application is in violation of other parts of our TOS. > > > > > So, if someone on this board could PLEASE let me know how I can stop > > these assholes, from continuing to SPAM me from their GOOGLE appspot, > > using their GMAIL account, I would GREATLY appreciate it. > > The emails are almost certainly not being sent from App Engine (which > would _definitely_ be a violation of our TOS) or from gmail - they're > simply linking to an App Engine app, and forging a gmail from address. > Unfortunately, the real hosts of such spammers are usually the sort > that are either offshore in some spam-friendly jurisdiction, or hosted > by people who don't pay much attention to abuse reports. My own spam > folder testifies to how prevalent this is. > > Regards, > > Nick Johnson > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
