Folks,
there is a new threat of which I think you should be aware. Your
anti-spam filters won't help, and it seems that your ISP won't help either.
I've just been caught by this, and my ISP (Ihug) has not been able to
solve the problem. It seems that a nasty person somewhere has been sending
millions of spam emails with the reply address set to my email.
The end result: I get hundreds of bounce messages a day. At its peak, I
was receiving up to 800 bounce messages a minute. Even Mail-Washer couldn't
keep up. I have created a filter which looks for Undeliverable and similar
things in the subject line and deletes them before they ever get to be
downloaded, but still my in-box is overflowing.
It would be nice if one could ask their ISP to never send bounce-mails,
but Ihug seem unable to do this.
I'm not receiving spam (my Ihug spam filter is in assassin mode), and I'm
not receiving viruses (coz that filter is similarly agressive), but
bounce-mails are still arriving at an alarming rate.
Be warned:- a spoof on the reply address can cause you BIG problems.
I feel like I want to kill someone.
Trevor
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