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Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/20/07 18:34
Rob wrote:
> I hope this question is appropriate to alt.html
>
> I brought up my primitive website last week, and ever since, I've
> been deluged w. email messages from email servers telling me that
> A.) I sent an email to somebody at the domain served by that email
> program that has been rejected
> B.) because either addressee unknown, or the email contained a
> virus, etc., etc.
>
> Is this a consequence of webbots that troll for new websites and
> flood the universe w. emails that show me as the sender?
>
> Is there anything I can do to stop it?
Your feedback/"tell a friend" script is allowing people to inject
mail-headers, which makes it possible for spammer to use it to send spam to
people. It don't take them long time to find these forms and when someone has
found it, it's soon known by hordes of spammers.
Spammers uses others e-mail addresses or fake ones, as they don't want to get
the mail bounced back at them and there are those spammers who delivery send
spam to a none working e-mail address, so that your ISPs spam-filter won't
filter it away, you get the mail and will open it to see what mail did fail to
be sent and the spammer hope you will read the whole mail and then hand over
your money to them.
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//Aho
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