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Posted by Bill For some reason, when I woke up this morning, I found 102 pages of "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" e-mails in my inbox. In fact, there are scores of variations on that same message, in various languages, apparently written to what seem like real e-mail networks (yahoo, .edu addresses, etc.) Two things: 1. If you sent me an e-mail in the past 20 hours or so, I won't see it. Beyond being buried within the pile, my account isn't receiving until I reduce its size. 2. What the ... Posted by Bill at July 11, 2006 05:52 AM | TrackBack (8) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsIf you signed up for Blue Frog, welcome to my nightmare. I've been getting those for a couple of months now. That, or some other low-life spoofed your address. Posted by: w3 at July 11, 2006 08:19 AM 2. What the ... That's what I said (I just blew back into town after a trip far from the internets.) Cheez Louise, any word who's reponsible for the Denial of Service attacks? Hey, you're a victim! Posted by: SarahW at July 11, 2006 10:01 AM Is that a symptom of a DOS attack? I don't think it is. And the site's been fine. Posted by: Bill from INDC at July 11, 2006 10:36 AM Yeah, you're being mailbombed. Someone forges a mail message that will fail for some reason, and that has you as the apparent sender. (All too easy to do, SMTP wasn't meant for a network with malicious senders.) They then send it many times. Boom, your mailbox fills up, but it's not AS EASILY traceable. HOWEVER, the headers should have clues; save a few of the mails, and contact abuse@ addresses at the mail services. Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) at July 11, 2006 10:50 AM mailbombed to what, annoy me? It's not taking the site down. Posted by: Bill from INDC at July 11, 2006 11:32 AM We're having something similar going on as well. Goldstein's site is down again today--I guess the bunny boilers are yukking it up. Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at July 11, 2006 11:37 AM I agree with the above. It sounds like a reverse spam attack. Basically, they spam but put you as the return address. The purpose is to inconvenience you. IIRC ISPs will typically terminate the offender for such action, if they can be traced. If you can prove damages and care that much, I would imagine you could probably seek a civil remedy. Posted by: TallDave at July 11, 2006 02:41 PM Bill, If you are indeed being used as described above, it can seriously impact your ability to communicate via e-mail. More and more hosts are subscribing to anti-spam services. They blacklist IP addresses based on incidences of spamming. Innocent parties get caught up in this, too. I spent the better part of a week straightening out my business communications because of spam blacklisting. If you ever want to check whether your IP is blacklisted, use the Spam Database Lookup here. Posted by: Dave in W-S at July 11, 2006 03:48 PM Specifically, you've been hit by a "Joe Job". Google the phrase for more info.
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