Spam

[dwight]

I had troubles with a fellow in England using my email address to mail spam. I traced down his IP address and the company that was being used. I sent mail to him a couple times and asked him to stop using my address. I then sent copies of the junk he was sending to his provider and  within a week it stopped.
Dwight


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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Tom Hunter via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 7:28 PM
To: jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Spam

Today I received two empty emails from Bill Degnan via this list. No
subject and no message body.
Googled put them into the Spam folder.

Tom Hunter

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:38 AM jim stephens via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 8/31/2020 3:55 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
> > Anybody else on cctech/cctalk receive a blatant spam today from an outfit
> > called "SparkPost" with "OptIn Live" in the subject?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter Coghlan.
> >
> i've found that someone who has had their emails in someones inbox may
> get their emails harvested and added to spam lists.
>
> I've got some past members here who still send spam.
>
> Unfortunately since we want to respond directly thru this to users, the
> email addresses are in the email messages.  If a spam creating exploit
> is through, it will pluck off the sender's email, which is the reply-to
> address.
>
> It may have nothing to do with the list or any user you can determine,
> but sometimes  it does.
>
> Thanks
> JIm
>