Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)
An acquaintance sent me an email asking to have her email address changed. It seems that a spammer used her email address as a return address (I guess that's sometimes called spoofing) and of course she's getting deluged with angry responses from the spammer's activities. I pointed her to some of the anti-spam organization's web sites and told her that it is possible to track down the people who are trying to benefit from the spammer's advertising and then sue them but of course this is pretty difficult for any individual. Has anyone here run into this and if so what did they do about it? -Alex ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)
The same thing has happened to me. I love to find out if you have any success in this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hewitt Tech Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed) An acquaintance sent me an email asking to have her email address changed. It seems that a spammer used her email address as a return address (I guess that's sometimes called spoofing) and of course she's getting deluged with angry responses from the spammer's activities. I pointed her to some of the anti-spam organization's web sites and told her that it is possible to track down the people who are trying to benefit from the spammer's advertising and then sue them but of course this is pretty difficult for any individual. Has anyone here run into this and if so what did they do about it? -Alex ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)
As it happens, there is a recent article on http://slashdot.org from someone this happened to along with the usual discussion. I'm sure there's some solutions. Stephen Ingham said: The same thing has happened to me. I love to find out if you have any success in this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hewitt Tech Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed) An acquaintance sent me an email asking to have her email address changed. It seems that a spammer used her email address as a return address (I guess that's sometimes called spoofing) and of course she's getting deluged with angry responses from the spammer's activities. I pointed her to some of the anti-spam organization's web sites and told her that it is possible to track down the people who are trying to benefit from the spammer's advertising and then sue them but of course this is pretty difficult for any individual. Has anyone here run into this and if so what did they do about it? -Alex ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- --- Tom Buskey ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
