Jeff, I've setup outbound rules (Imail) that, in an event like you described, should stop spam from being sent. Also Ours is set up to send out to only 25 max addresses at a time.
Hth, ~Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeff Hitchcock > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:28 PM - FamHost > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Nigerian fraud spammers using iMail > based WebMail accounts > > > As part of my Children with Diabetes web site, I run a > web-mail service > called cwdMail (www.cwdmail.com) that provides free accounts for users > of CWD. In about mid-December, some Nigerian fraud spammers found the > service and began creating accounts manually, including matching a > difficult-to-read alpha-numeric GIF to confirm that a human > was creating > the account. > > I noticed the spamming about three days ago and deleted probably 30 > accounts yesterday when I noticed bounces coming back. I have > configured > cwdmail.com outbound mail to go through my IMGate servers, which are > pretty good at catching that crap. (The Declude junk mail did not stop > them at all.) And I've shut down automatic web-based account creation. > > Has anyone else experienced a similar problem -- that is, > Nigerian fraud > spammers signing up for webmail accounts and using them to > spam? If so, > have you found some way of vetting accounts as they are created to > minimize this risk? Or is it simply hopeless? > > Jeff Hitchcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Children with Diabetes - http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/ ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
