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Sudden Spam Increase
31-05-2009 3:53 PM
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Re: Sudden Spam Increase
31-05-2009 4:40 PM
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I don't use my name.plusnet.com address for anything, I have a domain that forwards to it, so not
many people 'out there' should really have it.
About a month or two ago, I was surfing away and suddenly started getting emails as you describe,
failure notices, and I got a more than 200 hundred of them, more like .5-600 of them over
the course of a day, then it stopped, then I got another couple hundred a few days later,
then it stopped again, thank god. They were all spoofing my plusnet address/domain e.g.
madeup@myname.plus.com, which was VERY strange.
I wondered if anyone else had seen anything like this?
I wondered at the time if some website had sneakily reverse dnsed me in some way and
started spoofing it (even though I have it set to ip.plus.com, I believe it's possible) or they
were somehow going through plusnet domain names? It wasn't like I was on
wierd sites but a couple were those annoying pages that come high in google listings
but whose entire content is 'other links and nothing useful', so are probably more than
a bit 'spam friendly' .. got me wondering..
Re: Sudden Spam Increase
31-05-2009 5:41 PM
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Re: Sudden Spam Increase
31-05-2009 5:52 PM
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For me it stopped as suddenly as it started - HTH
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Re: Sudden Spam Increase
31-05-2009 8:19 PM
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Same with you?
Re: Sudden Spam Increase
01-06-2009 3:10 AM
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Hope this helps
Chris
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01-06-2009 9:32 AM
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01-06-2009 6:34 PM
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02-06-2009 7:44 AM
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