Bleh, spammers.

[dvandom]

The latest spammer trick is forged reply-to on stuff that's going out to unconfirmed addresses, so that if there's no one reading the email at the first address, the bounce message spams some other guy. In 8 hours overnight, I got 450 such spams that made it through my filters, another 50 caught by SpamAssassin, and a few hundred caught by the content-checking manual filters I set up when this bounce-spam first started (most of it is for sex videos and fake designer watches).

Unfortunately, last night's flood means I now have to subject-filter on bounce messages in general, since they've broadened their content too much for me to keep up that way. So now I can no longer see if I actually send an email that bounces...well, I could, but it would require reading my spam folders so often that it wouldn't be worth HAVING spam filters.

Congratulations, anonymous assholes, for contributing further to turning a useful tool into useless crap.

Comments

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I had that happen to me about five years ago. I'd be getting about 500 spam-bounces a day and eventually had to shut the address down because I couldn't keep up with it all.

My condolences. I'm not a guy who resorts to physical violence at all, but for the guy who came up with trick I'd make an exception.