Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address
On 10 Jun 2005, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 06/10/2005 04:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced
> > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and
> > sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them
> > as spam, but this is ridiculous. Is there any way to stop it happening?
> >
> > Anthony
>
>
> Anthony,
>
> It doesn't appear to be a problem taken too seriously by any authorities.
>
> http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html
> CERT® Coordination Center
> Spoofed/Forged Email
>
> That page was most recently updated in 2002.
>
> My experience in reporting incidents to cert and the offending
> originating ISP is mixed. Sometimes the spoofs stopped right away, but
> maybe for other reasons.
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
>
Thanks for this pointer. The flow seems to be slowing now, down to 32
last night from over 100, so I hope it will go away soon. Meanwhile I'm
catching nearly all of it with procmail.
Anthony
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