[access-uk] Re: Spamming with my E-Mail Address
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:26:18 -0000
Almost all of the email headers are forgeable, that is to say the
information in them is not reliable to trace the source of the spam.
You can track back the I/P addresses if you know what you are doing that
may not necessarily tell you that much. The present system of email
does not have a security model built into it and until we have something
like email that does this is still going to be a very significant
problem.
Most spamming these days is a highly sophisticated business and
conducted not so much by humans typeing emails or even just bulk sending
them but using bots (automiated bits of code) that are sitting on some
people's PC busily sending out this rubbish. Quite a lot of the bot
infested PCs live in the far east and Eastern Europe where software
piracy and the measures against it have left us with systems that are
not patched and therefore allow botnets to be maintained more easily.
However even in the west where patched systems are rather more common
the spammers and criminals are become more and more clever at getting
malware onto your PC, first it was via the illegal file sharing
networks, then cracks and serial number websites and porn sites. Kits
are now widely available for people to set up websites designed
specifically to dump malware onto your PCs in order to facilitate acts
of fraud or nuisance spamming etc.
There is very little you can do about it. especially once the spam lands
on your PC if your ISP does not have adequate spam filtering measures at
the ISP end.
The advice to get a Googlemail address is not at all bad since the spam
filtering is very good and you have the advantage that should you move
ISP later on you keep your email address. I may not use the same ISP if
or when I move but being able to keep the email address constant is once
less thing to worry about.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Darran Ross
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:07 PM
To: Access-UK
Subject: [access-uk] Spamming with my E-Mail Address
Hi List.
Can anyone give me any idea as to how I might go about finding out how
come
I'm receiving spam mail with my e-mail address as the sender? Or is this
just a case of tough? luck?
I'd really love to know who's responsible for this, if for no other
reason
than to let me vent my spleen!
Regards.
Darran
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