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Bounced spam attack
Since yesterday PM I've received several hundreds of spam emails. Different from the normal stuff, these aren't sent to me but from me, well not really... (and no, my computer isn't all hijacked)
Some spammer is making up fake email addresses @my.domain.name and using them in the From field. They're probably sending out tens of thousands of spam emails, and what I receive are error messages from the ones that were sent to unexisting addresses.
If they'd be using always the same alias, I'd just blackhole it, but it's always different. It sure isn't a good idea not to blackhole everything but legit aliases, but at the moment this isn't really an option (I always use a different alias on forms in an attempt to know who leaks me, though this tactic hasn't yet proven being useful).
To top that, right about bed time I got a trackback spam attack from the Russians. I think I'm beginning to agree with Greggman about trackback, more of a plague than any useful.
To all spammers: Get a f(!"#ing life.
Posted on August 24, 2004 at 10:32 | Tweet
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this is not the first time you get into trouble with the russiian hacker mafia ... what did you do to piss them off ???
Posted by Peter on August 25, 2004 at 14:20
No clue. :)
Posted by Patrick on August 25, 2004 at 14:25