RE: [OT] e-mail account hi-jacked?

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

> >I'm currently getting shed loads of failed delivery messages for a
> >Viagra substitute, all are forged headers, all links go back to
the
> >same set of IP addresses (but with differing domain names)
> in the far
> >east somewhere (can't remember off the top of my head, but I
> did lookup
> >and file an abuse ticket for what it's worth).
> >
> >There's not a lot you can do about it really (maybe a filter on
your
> >incoming mail ?)
>
> This seems to be a new strategy by spammers to cover their
> tracks.  I've had this a couple of times, both for sites
> trying to flog Viagra and other drugs.
>
> Presumably they hope that all the complaints about spamming
> will be sent to some unsuspecting 3rd party taken from one of
> their address lists.
>
> Luckily my ISP (BTInternet) are aware of the problem, and
> aren't going to close someone's account because of these
> incidents.  Others might not be so lucky.
>
> I don't think there's much can be done to stop it happening,
> since the real originators and their service providers
> obviously don't care about spamming.

The stuff I got hit with pointed back to a domain name registered a month
or
so ago, only having a 1 year registration, points to a server hosted on a
China Net IP address and was registered using a Yahoo address as the
technical contact. I guess this is just the next step on from the free AOL
disk spammers we used to get a few years ago :-( There's been no response
>from
all ISP's apply a common standard, then these spammers will simply move
along the list of known "spammer friendly" ISP's