By: nobody ( Nobody/Anonymous )
Spammers use spamgourmet
2003-07-23 01:41
Here is a new and bad development. I received spam where the "unsubscribe" address was given as
info.1.winmail@spamgourmet.com
So now spammers use disposables as a "valid" unsubscribe address? I think some address like abuse@spamgourmet.com might be needed to eliminate those people. Anything we can do about this?
By: nobody ( Nobody/Anonymous )
RE: Spammers use spamgourmet
2003-07-25 08:21
ACK
Got spam featuring the same address.
By: syskoll ( Fred )
RE: Spammers use spamgourmet
2003-07-25 22:05
This is actually good news. It means that spamgourmet is efficient enough that spammers start seeing it as a nuisance and try to annoy SG's admins.
By: jqh1 ( Josiah Hamilton )
RE: Spammers use spamgourmet
2003-08-18 12:47
Yeah - I've gotten hate mail, and even a message on my home answering machine threatenting to sue me if I didn't stop sending spam
This is the "Joe Job" problem - unfortunately, I can't think of a good way around it.
If you ever believe that a spammer used spamgourmet to *send* spam, please scream and yell and let everyone know right away. We've worked very hard to prevent this from happening (each new feature is 10% new functionality and 90% abuse prevention) - and so far we've seen no indication of that kind of abuse.
Sadly, though, there is just about nothing we can do to stop someone from typing a particular address into the body of a spam message prior to sending it (on one of the still common open relays, for instance). Ask yourself what you'd do if the spammer had typed your personal address as the "unsubscribe" contact -- this happens, sometimes coincidentally, sometimes intentionally (like here)...