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



On Thursday 10 July 2003 15:15, Steve Crook wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:22:01PM +0100, 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?
>
> I suffered exactly the same thing about a week ago.  Lots of bounces
> from AOL mta's, all claiming my messages couldn't be delivered.
>
> They used a false username, but my ISP-provided domain name.  I wrote to
> AOL and asked for details on the originating source of the messages, but
> surprise surprise, yet to hear anything back.

The reason you're yet to hear anything back is that the original emails are 
unlikely to have originated in any of AOL's domains (at least, none of the 
ones I've seen so far have...)  You can hardly blame AOL for bouncing email 
directed at non-existent users to the address in the "Reply-to:" header...

jd
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