Returned mail: SPAM

seeing a lot of bogus server bounces lately

[bill]

In the last couple of days I'm seeing a lot of messages from places like Mail Delivery Subsystem [[e-mail]] and others containing bounced spam messages where my e-mail was used as the return address, with the offending spam attached. I'd normally shrug this off, but I'm seeing it in volume on several unrelated accounts at the same time. I'm wondering if this is just coincidence, or whether this is the beginning of a new spam wave.

The reason I noticed this is that a number of messages made it through my spam filters this way. Fortunately this is happening only on accounts I no longer use to send mail from, but if the practice expands I can see it damaging the functionality of bounces net-wide (more so that it has already)

Has anybody else noticed this?

[Celt_Man]

I am having the same situation. It just started last week, and now on a daily basis I am receiving bounced messages with my email address forged as the return address.

My research tells me that this is called email spoofing and that nothing can be done about it.

It really annoys me!

[thing3b]

I have the same problem. But from reading a site that I can not remember, I know that there might be one cure.

The only way that email-address/ip-address forging can be stopped is by getting a mail company like yahoo to implement a new email protocol that makes sure that the email is at least comming from the right domain.

So it is up to yahoo/hotmail I think to help solve the problem.

[Celt_Man]

Check out what amazon.com is doing about this problem...

[amazon.com...]

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Celt_Man & thing3b

I'm well aware of what e-mail spoofing is and the problems it has caused. The reason I posted my message was that I'd noticed a new wave of it on non-related public and private e-mail accounts. Looking over more of this mail I'm seeing the same messages being bounced back. So, I am wondering whether this is a new mass effort by e-mail UCE spammers to use this method to get people to open their messages. It certainly worked for me on the first few before I caught on. I'm concerned that my less savvy colleagues won't be so lucky.

E-mail from users named Mail Delivery Subsystem and subjects of Returned mail: User unknown used to make it through my filters and I'd never paid much notice...until now.