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Re: [LUG] Spammers claiming to be me :(



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Paul Weaver wrote:
> Just so I know I'm not going mad, someone care to confirm that some
spammer
> used my domain to send some rubbish to aolers? Anyone else ever had this?

No, although with my various mail filters it is just about possible I
wouldn't even notice ;-)

Been discussed a bit on demon.service, and I think u.c.o.l, seems some
spammers is doing short runs mainly (or maybe it is how they do the
bounce?) at AOLers using other people's sender addresses.

Some of the Demon ones use four random characters on the end of the
first part of the email name...

i.e. they send as "SimonXASD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead of "Simon@"

Most cases reported recently the volume was small, so hopefully it'll
stop soon.

I'd take the view it was AOL's problem, unless you're spoiling to track
down and sue a spammer.

Interesting Microsoft are allegedly sueing spammers, so I hope they get
the bastard at Microsoft trying to sell mapping software (in French) to
subscribers of bug-gnu-chess ;-)

I assume in these days of large multinationals one part of a company
sueing another part of the same company must have happened already -
probably before anyone noticed they work for the same company...
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