On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:37 -0600, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > We seem to be having a problem where clients that we interact with > regularly are having their hotmail/gmail/yahoo accounts hijacked. We > are receiving e-mails from their accounts that legitimately go through > the correct servers (hotmail,yahoo, etc.) and so they get passed through > our spam filters. The messages have different bodies but basically say > the same thing that they were on vacation and had all their money stolen > so they need to have money wire transferred to them. > > Obviously we just have to tell the clients that they need to deal with > the various e-mail providers, but is there an effective way that I can > filter these messages out before my users see them without blacklisting > the address? In one case I had probably 15 users that received the same > message and naturally they freaked out. >
Why only free accounts , The 419'ers hijack legitimate corporate accounts too. Again , As Ips have good reputation and the mails land in the inbox I think the only way of handling this to send proper abuse reports Probably the free mail providers are less reponsive to abuse reports than corporate ones. Thanks Ram
