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[SC-Help] Re: Did I receive this bounce because...

Glenn Daniels nobody at devnull.spamcop.net
Fri May 6 01:29:17 EDT 2005


"Don J. Reid" wrote in message
> "Mike Easter" wrote in message ...
> > Don J. Reid wrote:
> >> Did I receive this bounce because some one forged my addy,  or is it a
> >> retaliation for not perfectly munged reports.
> >>
> >> I have received MAILER-DAEMON response before but not seen this type
> >> before
> >
> > It looks to me like;  in the beginning, 216.191.158.153 no rDNS an
> > allstream user emailed a buncha ilap addresses and must've put your addy
> > as a bogus From.  The ilap server accepted the mail for delivery and
> > then bounced the mail it had accepted by creating a newmail addressed to
> > your addy the From and with the headers of the original item attached.
> > It also 'declared' the source IP of the original item in the body of its
> > DSN "The original message was received at Wed, 4 May 2005 13:45:50 -0400
> > (EDT) from [216.191.158.153]"  That's cute.
> >
> > But, cute or not, that is abusive behavior on the ilap server's part and
> > is spamcop reportable.  I'm guessing at the scenario because there's
> > mungeing pretty much everywhere.
> >
> > -- 
> > Mike Easter
> > kibitzer, not SC admin
> >
>
> Thanks Mike
>
>

Looks like W32.Sober.O to me... Received similar
item this morning and did not report as misguided
bounce, but alerted sender to apparent viral propagation
of the new virm variant first detected 05/02/2005.

Glenn
>




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