Re: Increasing From fraud?

• From: Koos van den Hout < >
• Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:41:32 +0100
• Organization: Van den Hout Creative Communications

Quoting Gunnar Lindberg who wrote on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:17:22AM +0100:

> It seems like error returns due to fraud "From foo@localhost"
> has increased fairly drastically from around Christmas. Is it just
> that it came to us now (latest spam CD has us predefined) or do
> others have similar experience?

I'm seeing a lot of From foo@localhost[124].xs4all.nl. Which is indeed the
MX for kzdoos.xs4all.nl (good old UUCP still going strong).

My guess is that it has to do with certain software that just checks the
From: address for a relaying check.

Oh, if you want to have a few laughs about a stupid spammer, go to
http://petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoronSpammer.html (linked from
slashdot).

                                         Greetings Koos

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