Weird.  I've been involved with mail servers for 15 years, and it's the
first time I've run in to that.

Out of all the spam I've seen, this strikes me as the absolute sleaziest
possibly way to go about it...

/me makes preparations to nuke bounceio from orbit...

Thanks,

-A

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Gil Bahat <g...@magisto.com> wrote:

> It's called bounceio 'domain monetization' and it's not new at all. They
> will send bounces specifically back to the sender address and not the
> return path address. Like any spam operation, it's UCE. Unlike any other
> spam operation, not enough people mark them as spam, so their email still
> gets accepted. I asked our ESP to avoid sending email to any domain with a
> BIO server in the MX.
>
> Gil
> On May 6, 2016 11:43 PM, "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aa...@heyaaron.com> wrote:
>
> A user sent a message to the django-users list asking for help.  I replied
> and about 5 minutes later I got a 'bounce' message that is basically a
> bounce message laden with spam.
>
> http://imgur.com/Ohn6sPE
>
> Is this a new method of delivering spam?  Get 'someone' like
> j...@piccloud.com to sign up for the mailing list, then delete the
> account and have piccloud.com send spam thinly-disguised as bounce
> messages?
>
> -A
>
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