254

AG/DC
Mar 08 2008 02:10 PM

This doesn't look good. I just logged onto Yahoo and I have 254 new messages and I'm afraid to look. My guess is that one of my sites got hacked and used to spam half the universe, and the 254 messages are the bouncebacks.

metirish
Mar 08 2008 02:18 PM

I've not used my Yahoo account for years for that reason, one day I just started getting dozens of spam mail at a time, good luck with it.

AG/DC
Mar 08 2008 02:22 PM

Yup. All sorts of people fending off big-cock e-mails from charlenelockwood.com.

Kong76
Mar 08 2008 02:49 PM

I got some spam earlier from charliebigwood.com, what a coincidence!

I forget the buzzwords, but you probably weren't hacked. Spammers just
use the domain address and make it look like you sent it and then all the
addresses they sent it to that don't exist unfortunately get bounced back
to you. Or something like that. Very annoying.

AG/DC
Mar 08 2008 02:53 PM

One can make an e-mail come from "LamontlienChase@charlenelockwood.com" without it launching from charlenelockwood.com?

Kong76
Mar 08 2008 03:12 PM

There's a buzzword for it, I hate when I can't remember shit.

themetfairy
Mar 08 2008 03:16 PM

[url=http://email.about.com/od/inboxcomtips/qt/et_any_from.htm]Here's how you do it[/url].

Kong76
Mar 08 2008 03:25 PM

I don't think that's how they do it, it's more sneaky than that.

Edge, I looked at the kcmets mail account (I had that problem years ago) and
there's a setting to not accept any bounced back mail that has an illegal address
from your domain.

Kong76
Mar 08 2008 03:46 PM

'email spoofing' is the word I was trying to think of.

Nymr83
Mar 08 2008 04:27 PM

i'm not on edgy's spam list :(

AG/DC
Mar 08 2008 08:11 PM

Well, I just spent a half hour deleting bouncebacks.

You guys should be really pissed about this.