So I got joe-jobbed tonight. Someone attempted to send a spam mailing out, and they used my return address. Now I get to sort through 10,000 inbound email messages to determine which ones are actually for me.
For those who don’t know what a “joe job” is… Well, spammers are trying to figure out ways around people’s spam filters. A lot of spam filters will check with the recipient address to determine if the address is legit or not before they allow that “sender” to deliver to them.
Well, I’m “legit”, and my server confirms it. So they pretend to be me, putting “my” return address on the outbound spam mail, and send out stuff to hundreds of thousands of people. So I get tens of thousands of bounced messages and irate people emailing me and getting on my case for “spamming”.
First, I’m not German.
Second, the mail didn’t come from my server.
Oy, veh. I hate spammers. The Internet sucks.
Explains alot
That is the reason why I get all of these weird bounced back emails at work. Yesterday I had 200 of them that came in less than 5 minutes.
Yeah, that’s it.
Yeah, that’s the main symptom: a zillion email bounces for email you didn’t write, followed up within a day or two by a few to a few dozen irate mails saying “don’t spam me, you dirtwad!”
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Matthew P. Barnson
The lucky one!
–WOW! I guess I am lucky I have never had that happen before. I do get alot of spam, but never anyone sending it as me. I find it unreal that people take the time to do that anyway. To what end? I suggest you go play your piano to ward off the frustration of the internet. lol Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer