[nzlug] Spurious bounce messages

[Mark Foster]

Nice. Clear response there Steve.

Roderick: Return email addresses are the first thing forged by spammers. 
The fact you received the bounce (aka Backscatter) doesn't mean your 
system generated the message.

You'll find some spammer has picked up your email address and generated 
junk with you as the sender.  You'll thus catch any bounces generated.

You only need to worry if your own IP address is implicated...

Mark.



On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote:

> 'fraid so.
>
> Steve
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:32:20 +1300
> Roderick Aldridge <rod-a at hnpl.net> wrote:
>
>> Two emails I received today are apparently bounce messages supposedly from
>>
>> host ns.satlan.com[202.27.219.1] said: 550 5.1.1
>>
>> One contained an attachment
>>
>> Nove..r 77% OFF.eml
>>
>> and the other
>>
>> Oct...r 72% OFF.eml
>>
>>
>> I don't recognise the names of the supposed recipients, and I certainly didn't send anything to either.
>> Is this just another clever spam disguise or has my system been compromised in some way?
>> I am running Thunderbird using POP3 dialup on Xubuntu 7.10.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Roderick Aldridge
>>
>>
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