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But I'm really getting tired of it. The bounces, the damage to our corporate reputation, and the whole annoyance of the thing is really getting on my nerves. But how do you fight something that you have no power to stop?
So I just have to live with the fact that some creep is sending out disgusting messages that look like they came from my domain. May as well grin and bear it, since there's nothing that can be done to stop it.
Sorry for the rant. Thanks for listening.
Matthew
My emergancy plan for this situation is:
o) Write up a message to send to people who fire off angry replies.
o) Put a notice on the website announcing that someone is sending spam.
o) Try to explain the situation to angry sysadmins who don't know what theyre doing. (they thought i sent them spam -.-;;)
o) Try to find out who's sending the message, then seek legal advice (as a last resort).
Try to find out who's sending the message, then seek legal advice (as a last resort).
That option interests me. How would I start trying to find out who's doing this? The headers of the message are just a bunch of style information, which is lame, but effective at hiding tracks. The link they wanted folks to visit is fake and probably doesn't exist at all. Obviously I didn't try it myself, but it's a really strangely-formatted Geocities address - I checked the message source code to be sure.
Thankfully, the attack today seems to have been pretty limited. They were faking all kinds of addresses @mydomain.com, which brought the bounces back to our catchall. Actually, this very thing is one reason I keep a catchall account - I get to keep an eye on things like this that could otherwise go unnoticed.
The thing that burned me this time was the type of content they were sending. Very nasty stuff and definitely not what we want associated with our business image.
;-)
