[LUNI] OT: Backscatter

[James Velguth]

Sometime last year I started to receive tons of extra spam and for the 
first time using my full name.  This was in my Jim at WaxMoustache.com 
email address then I received a message from Monster.com apologizing for 
getting hacked which explains how they had the knowledge of me.  About 2 
months ago I started receiving up to 200 bounce backs a day from spamers 
that hijacked that email address.  I sent a number of them to 
spamcop.com and they originate from .de and .au.  There is nothing I can 
do except follow spamcop's recommendation about asking the host to ban 
them.  I believe I will soon have to change my email address.  The worst 
our economy gets the more people will be turning to spamming to make money.
Jim Velguth

Eric MacAdie wrote:

> I noticed I was getting a lot of these about a month ago. I was going 
> to post to the list to ask if anybody else was getting these. My 
> catch-all address got 10,000 messages today.
>
> Eric MacAdie
>
>
> Eric Ellington wrote:
>
>> I figured this Article on Slashdot just spread the idea wider and wider.
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0452257
>>
>> My email servers at work have just been getting more and more.
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Just wondering if anyone has noticed a surge in "backscatter" in the
>>> past 24 hours.
>>> I have gotten about 100+ "undeliverable" email messages in my SPAM
>>> folder from people I have never heard of.
>>> I don't know if it's just my turn, or there's some new zombie army on
>>> the loose.
>>>
>>> - Mike Scott
>>>
>>>
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