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Spoofing spammers

I woke up this morning to find Google Notifier telling me I had 205 new messages. What the hell?

Ah. They’re all failed delivery notices. Some spamming bastard has sent out a batch of unsolicited e-mails spoofed to look like they came from someone at thinkdrastic.net.

Rest assured it wasn’t me. I hate spam as much as the rest of you.

Nope, I just get to clear up the mess afterwards. No doubt I’ll find my domain on all sorts of blacklists now. Oh great joy. I’m in such a great mood now.

Oh, happy christmas everybody.

Posted in Geek, Spam on Sunday, December 31st, 2006

5 Responses to “Spoofing spammers”

1. SimonB on December 31st, 2006 at 12:40 pm

Spammers r cnut

Merry Christmas Olly :)

2. sara on January 2nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm

That has happened to me in two seperate instances. It really sucks and is a pain in the ass to get off the spam lists once you’re on. Bunch of punks if you ask me!

3. grant on January 22nd, 2007 at 6:38 pm

Seems to have happened to me over the weekend. How did you stop it in the end?

4. Olly on January 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am

I ignored it and it went away :)

5. Olly on February 24th, 2007 at 10:49 am

…and then it came back, big stylee :(

Andy was forwarding everything@, but seeing as all the spams were using made up addresses, I’ve got him to switch over to only forwarding olly@ – slightly less convenient but I’ll be getting about a million fewer failure notices in my inbox.