[LINK] Forged email

[Rowe, Joshua]

http://www.spamcon.org/recipients/spam-response/demand-restitution.shtml is
a good place to start.


Josh
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hartr@interweft.com.au [mailto:hartr@interweft.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2001 14:08
> To: Link discussion group
> Subject: [LINK] Forged email
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a very interesting occurrence happening.
> 
> Several spam emails have been sent out with forged email 
> addresses that
> *appear* to come from my domain. There are 3 separate addresses being
> used for 3 different messages.
> 
> I have received one complaint about one of the emails (unfortunately
> they did not save the complete message headers...), but the real
> problems is that there are a HUGE number of bad email addresses in the
> list being used - and I am now getting all the return 
> attempts to these
> non existent emails (several thousand a day).
> 
> Whilst not amounting to a denial of service attack, I am of 
> course being
> billed by Telstra for all of this traffic. I spoke with Telstra and
> there's nothing they can do (which is unsurprising). They also tell me
> that there's nothing they can do about me being charged for 
> the traffic
> that is being generated...
> 
> I have captured the original messages and I have contact telephone
> numbers (in the USA) for people who want to follow up the 
> spam. So, the
> culprits are (possibly) traceable.
> 
> So - my questions to Link are:-
> 
> 1) Does this occurrence amount to something that I should 
> report to the
>    federal police?
> 2) If this is not a matter for the federal police, what else 
> can one do
>    about this sort of abuse?
> 
> -- 
> Robert Hart					 hartr@interweft.com.au
> Strategic IT & open source consulting                +61 
> (0)438 385 533
> Brisbane, Australia			    http://www.interweft.com.au
> 
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