[SC-Help] Re: Spam looks like a bounce

[Kevin Davidson]

Thanks for your comments and for Mike's analysis. This leaves me with 2 
questions:

1) Is there anything a responsible mail administrator should do to 
reduce this problem.
2) Is there any way to report this junk to SpamCop?

Tnx,

Kevin

Karl-Josef Ziegler wrote:
> Kevin Davidson wrote:
> 
>> I posted a spam over in the spam area under the title "Spam looks like 
>> a bounce". I changed my real email name to "me" and my domain to 
>> "mydomain". I have an email account, me at acm.org, which forwards to 
>> me at mydomain.org.
> 
> 
> Such a 'forced bounce' (any other terminus technicus available?) seems 
> one of the 'standard tricks' of the Russian Spam Gang (was it warez 
> spam?). Sending the spam to a (known) non-existing localpart of a 
> reputable domain/mailserver with your address as a forged sender. 
> Instead of coming directly from the usual zombie (which may be in 
> several blocklists) the bounce now comes from a reputable mailserver 
> which may not be in a blocklist. Double abuse: zombie for sending the 
> mail and the mailserver which has to handle thousands of these 'forced 
> bounces'...
> 
> - kjz