[SC-Help] Re: Help? Fraudulent email in the "from" of sp*m!

[Glenn Daniels]

"Jodi Krangle" wrote in message
> I'm really hoping someone here has some advice for me...
>
> My business email address - jodi at internet-marketing-mm.com - is getting
> TONS of "mail undeliverable" messages (and I mean thousands a day) from
> some slimy sp*mmers who have put that email address in the "from" field of
> their mailouts.  :(
>
> This has been going on for about five days not (maybe more) and it shows
no
> sign of stopping.  It's EXTREMELY annoying.
>
> I'm aware that when people report sp*m, it's reported by IP address and
not
> necessarily by the actual email address listed in the mail... although I'm
> sure my email address IS being banned by some people who really think I'd
> be stupid enough to send out that crap, since the email address actually
> makes reference to "internet-marketing".
>
> Is there ANYTHING I can do about this?  Does anyone have any advice for me
> here?  I'm getting more than a little desperate.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

Sorry, Jodi, but I don't do the "advice" thingy as
that is an extremely slippery slope. But I am given
to asking stupid questions, like do you have an email
client that supports some sort of filter rules?
If not, why not? If so, why not simply filter for
your addy in the "Sender:" header and direct the
spew you allegedly sent yourself into the trash,
letting your mail sort unhindered into your mailbox?
Or am I missing something here?

Have you the LARTed the abusing "bouncers"?
Once I were one of them until Mike Easter
'splained me this: The worms forge the spamitems,
'tis not the work of human malice or ill will.
Nothing in or about the viral slough we call
spam merits also a qualifier as email. It is
nothing more nor less than the illegitimate
spawn of a virus which in itself an abortion
of creative intellect put to criminal ends. When
your name falls into the "From" field in the
virus' macro template, it may stick for a time,
but it is a programming defect that reveals the
nature of the thing. It is more like an unthinking
automaton than a human being. I dredged through
what came to me until I found the one that said that
I had sent it to myself and confronted the abuse
desk for my ISP with the obvious, asking that
they not believe such nonsense and asking their
help in LARTing the abusing ISPs that were
bouncing the spam to me "as if" I had anything
to do with it. Worms lie. Everything in a spamitem
is forged by the worm except the host's IPA.
I am a recovering "bouncer" and my name is Bill.
Sorry for the lunatic rambling, gotta get back
on my meds I see...

Last time this happened here was about a year ago
and for that I am thankful.

Best wishes,
Glenn