[BNM] Spoofed e-mails

[Joe Aliferis]

The sender IP will most probably be a hijacked machine anyway - but its 
good to inform someone their box is hijacked

Joe

> the sender's ip will be recorded in the email. You *could* lookup for
> that IP and contact their ISP. However I have never heard of any real
> action against these spammers, especially because sometimes *some* ISP
> are actually getting money from spammers.
>
> you could also report that IP to popular online IP blacklists. It will
> however not be very effective if the spammer changes ip frequently.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Alessandro
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Anthony Johnston <lists at antix.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Someone is sending loads of e-mails on my behalf
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>> ie they are using my e-mail address as the sender
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>> I am getting loads of rejected returns.
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>> Does anyone know if there anything I can do about it?
>>
>> Ant
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>> anthony johnston
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>> e:  <mailto:anthony.johnston at antix.co.uk> anthony.johnston at antix.co.uk
>> m: +44(0)7899 793 042
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>> antix software limited
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>> w:  <http://www.antix.co.uk/> http://www.antix.co.uk
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