Push Button Paradise
Micah Dubinko
Sat, 16 Jul 2005
I am not a spammer
I awoke this morning with 256 new messages, not counting whatever my normal filters took out. Mostly "failure notice", "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)", "Uneliverable Mail", and so on. 257 now.
Apparently some scumbag is sending out lotsa spam with return address from xformsinstitute.com, so I'm getting all the bounces, hate mail, etc. 258 now. It started in earnest about an hour prior to the timestamp on this mesage.
So if you get any of this, (259 now) don't blame me, I've got nothing to do with it. -m
posted at: 08:31 | under: 2005-07 | 2 comment(s)
It's called a "joe job", it's been happening to my domain for the past two years. I don't know what to do to fix it. I've looked everywhere, and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop this. I did turn off 'catch-all email', so that I don't receive the bounces. Sometimes I'd turn it back on, and within a few seconds I start receiving the bounced emails. If you do find a way to stop this, please share it.
Posted by Daniel at Sat Jul 16 11:19:10 2005
Posted by Daniel at Sat Jul 16 11:19:10 2005
This happened to me a long time ago, it irritated me cause it was to an address that I was
quite fond of.
Looking through the message there were links to a site, I went to the site, a
pharmaceuticals selling site. Checking the domain via whois I started tracing the
registration, I made complaints altogether in about five or six different hosts along the
way (It's a while ago now but I seem to remember the site was owned by a shell company that
had an empty domain with some email accounts etc. so I did a whois on the empty domain and
so forth and so on recursively hence my doing all these complaints) also as I supposed using
my account to get the responses didn't make any sense I set up a script to start spamming
all the email accts of theirs I could find with the information that the email account I was
using was a real one and could they please stop using my email address. I also set up a bot
to start making submissions on their web site order form with the information being put in
that my account was a real one and I would appreciate them not using the address. I did this
only for a few hours and turned off my bots, figuring this would prevent a war, and waited a
couple days to see if I had had any luck. Over the next couple days the bounced mails decreased until they finally disappeared altogether.
not sure which one of my methods was the beneficial one.
Posted by bryan at Sun Jul 17 03:00:20 2005
quite fond of.
Looking through the message there were links to a site, I went to the site, a
pharmaceuticals selling site. Checking the domain via whois I started tracing the
registration, I made complaints altogether in about five or six different hosts along the
way (It's a while ago now but I seem to remember the site was owned by a shell company that
had an empty domain with some email accounts etc. so I did a whois on the empty domain and
so forth and so on recursively hence my doing all these complaints) also as I supposed using
my account to get the responses didn't make any sense I set up a script to start spamming
all the email accts of theirs I could find with the information that the email account I was
using was a real one and could they please stop using my email address. I also set up a bot
to start making submissions on their web site order form with the information being put in
that my account was a real one and I would appreciate them not using the address. I did this
only for a few hours and turned off my bots, figuring this would prevent a war, and waited a
couple days to see if I had had any luck. Over the next couple days the bounced mails decreased until they finally disappeared altogether.
not sure which one of my methods was the beneficial one.
Posted by bryan at Sun Jul 17 03:00:20 2005
