Christine ™ aka Big Pink Cookie To Make a Short Story Long…

Posted
by Christine
23 November 2003 @ 12pm

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Geek Love

Make it Stop!

Now the freak spammers are not only using blahblahblog.com to send out spam, but they have started using the Picture Yourself domain too. I’ve got hundreds of over FOUR THOUSAND bounce messages, which just started 3 days ago, in the inbox there. (Yes, I moved them *all* into one folder so I could “count” them.)

I think I’m going to cry.


16 Comments

Posted by
Doc
23 November 2003 @ 12pm

Is there no way to track them down via their bounced headers and report it? I would think the bounced address would contain the original header info with IPs etc.


Posted by
Christine
23 November 2003 @ 12pm

That’s what I’m looking for right now, but for some reason it all looks like garbly-gook to me through the anger and I can’t figure out which line is the line I want to report.

Evil bastards!!!


Posted by
C.C.
23 November 2003 @ 12pm

That sucks hardcore! We’ve had that happen a couple of times with Foo and every time it pisses me off to no end!


Posted by
judi
23 November 2003 @ 12pm

OOOOOO~that bites!

((((hugs))))


Posted by
Gordon
23 November 2003 @ 1pm

Ouch. What a bunch of moronic a-holes!


Posted by
Rori
23 November 2003 @ 1pm

OMG.


Posted by
laserone
23 November 2003 @ 5pm

Gawd, that really sucks. :( **hugs** I had it happen to me too but you have me beat, that’s alot of emails! :(


Posted by
Leslie
23 November 2003 @ 9pm

Ooooh, they’ve gotten me before, too. Twice. And both times, I felt the exact same way you do. SO SORRY!

Leslie


Posted by
Dedman
24 November 2003 @ 6am

Again, this may be prohibited under the law that went into effect on September 1. You ought to talk to someone about that. Also see here and here.


Posted by
Christine
24 November 2003 @ 9am

I’m more worried at this moment about someone coming after *me* as a spammer - the law allows for me to recover damages for spam I received, not for spam sent with my name on it. At least that’s my understanding so far.

I am investigating this further though. Thanks for the links! :)


Posted by
kim
24 November 2003 @ 9am

Procmail is your friend… set up a procmail rule based on the From Postmaster or Mailer Daemon to put all bounces into a folder so your inbox doesn’t get spammed.


Posted by
robin
24 November 2003 @ 10am

SPAM SUCKS! Sounds like they *may be using you as a relay host..are you running your own domain? If so I’d close off the relaying port.


Posted by
Christine
24 November 2003 @ 10am

Nope, they are not relaying through me (we have the ports closed), they are just spoofing my address in the mail from fields - so I get all the bounce messages.

I’m just waiting to be blacklisted for it now. *sigh*


Posted by
Annessa
24 November 2003 @ 3pm

I know how you feel. I’m getting the same thing.


Posted by
amancay
24 November 2003 @ 3pm

I’m so sorry… this happened to amancay.com a while back; unfortunately all I found I could do was attempt to report them via me hosting company…
and shrug, hoping they’d move on to the next bogus mix soon!


Posted by
Live in the Delirious Cool
26 January 2004 @ 5pm

Don’t hate me, world!
It’s not my fault, I’m not a spammer!


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