Hotmail - help

Sephiroth · #1 11th Apr 03, 11:34 PM

I don't think this would really fit into any of the support areas here... but still, help, lol

I woke up this morning with about 5 msgs in my Hotmail acct.'s junk mail folder, almost deleted them b/c i was still half way asleep, but i looked at them and they all read something like this:

Quote:

This is the Postfix program at host mx2.pacifier.net.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below.

  The Postfix program

<silicon.pacifier.com@mx2.pacifier.net>: unknown user: "silicon.pacifier.com"

I started looking through the attachments, and they were all sent to different people, but had the same body:

Quote:

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Our product is 100% guaranteed to add permanent length and girth to a q4bfmx2 q4bfmxn
males erection. At least 2.5 and up to 4 inches have been recorded throughout
all of our extensive testing. You cant go wrong with this wonderful q4bfmxl q4bfmxf
life changing product. Get the confidence and size you've always wanted q4bfmxi q4bfmxb
today. And remember, its guaranteed here. q4bfmxj q4bfmxm

Check it out right here q4bfmx3 q4bfmxv

*Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Just call is for a return authorization, send in the unused portion q4bfmx7 q4bfmmcq4bfmmr q4bfmma

and we will refund your money (less shipping and handling) immediately.q4bfmmk q4bfmmpq4bfmmg q4bfmms

q4bfmmz q4bfmmhq4bfmmo q4bfmm2q4bfmmd q4bfmmlq4bfmmq

I was like what the hell?? So I looked through the message headers, and for the message that originally left my acct, the header was this:

Quote:

From :    
<myaddyhere@hotmail.com>  
   
To :    
<nightshade@iquest.net>  
 
Subject :    
It?s that simple  
 
 
Received: (qmail 26291 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 02:10:52 -0000
Received: from docsis176-205.menta.net (62.57.176.205) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 11 Apr 2003 02:10:52 -0000
Return-Path: <myaddyhere@hotmail.com>
<html>  

I didn't think it was possible to spoof an address over HTTP mail like Hotmail. I've changed my pass, scanned my system with 2 AV programs, scanned it with Ad-Aware, and they all came up empty, but I'm still getting them. Anybody have any ideas? I know at least 10 so far have bounced, who knows how many more were sucessfully sent, and sooner rather than later I'll be over my sent messages quota @ hotmail and have my addy blacklisted as a spammers address......

Zone-MR · #2 11th Apr 03, 11:54 PM

Adam, it seems the spammers for whatever reason are using your email addy as a return address in the email they sent. It doesnt mean they hacked your account - they simply set their spamming software to have your hotmail account as its 'from' address. Email is not secure and anyone can send spoofed messages. The IP address of the SMTP server it was sent from will be the spammers and not hotmails.

Obviously this means undelivered mail will be returned to your addy, and there is not much you can do about it.

JacKDynne · #3 12th Apr 03, 12:30 AM

!@#$%$@##@!@#$ Spammers

Just be glad you were not running a mail server that was used for a relay

/JD

Nd4Spd · #4 12th Apr 03, 01:05 PM

My girlfriend had this happen to her at Earhlink. You remember all their commercials about how they are 100 percent against spam, bla, bla, bla? Well, when she called them and explained what was happening (she was getting some NASTY mail from ppl that had been spammed), EL said that they could do nothing. They offered her a new address, which she took, but they forwarded her old e-mail to her new as one of the benifits of "moving" within their system!
So it basically solved nothing, she dropped them and went with someone else, and swore never to use them again.

Any way, the point of that was to say I know what you're going through.

Indy

KingCobra · #5 12th Apr 03, 01:15 PM

I have had and do have this happen with my Yahoo accounts.

wase4711 · #6 12th Apr 03, 02:36 PM

I've had it happen to me too, Seph; all you can do at this time is to block those emails, or, set your Hotmail acct. to only "allow" certain email address's in...

it eliminates some mail u might want to come through, but at least you don't get bombarded with all that kinda s*it..

wase 4711

Bads · #7 12th Apr 03, 05:16 PM

I just receive a message with Outllook Express and the sender is ME

Is it possible that a member of this forum use our mail adress ?

I have this email for about just two months

I hope this is not a member from here who is using our mail adress

war59312 · #8 12th Apr 03, 08:58 PM

Have not had this happen to me, yet.

You would think that you could just sign all your e-mail using a key that the server reads and if the key is missing than the server deletes the e-mail and it never is sent. And record whatever info you want. So if someone sends a message acting like they are u and it gets sent back to you because of a bad address for example then the server checks to see if your key is included with the original e-mail and if not then it knows it was not you who tried to send the message to the e-mail address that does not exist.

Log all ip address, host names, etc and send it to the authorities. Does not seem that hard to me.

Also have all the e-mails, key, etc 1024 bit or stronger encrypted.

Might just be pretty expensive.

Would be nice. Exscpeial if all e-mail has to be signed. Thats how it should be. Make a law saying that all e-mail must be encrpted and ditigal signed so that you can 100% trace everything.

If your digital key is fake then simply your e-mail is never sent. That should stop a lot of spamers.

And not only that they have to have your digital key to be able to send you an e-mail. If u want it that way. Fine with me. No spam ever. Sure its possiable, just money and time.

cya,
Will