Re: Spoofed SPAM relayed using my email address.

[Vince Vielhaber <vev () MICHVHF COM>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Dennis DeDonatis wrote:

> I received the following 3 bounces today.  I did not generate the original emails.
>
> Have any of you on the incidents email list had this happen?
>
> I assume I was randomly chosen as a valid email from harvested
> address and then the spammer's email routed through "Hallym
> University" in Korea.
>
> I haven't had any flaming mail come to me from the people that
> were spammed, as I had expected, which is a good thing, I guess.
> :)
>
> Is there ANY way to protect against this other than not using my
> email address anywhere? :)
>
> I can't think of anyone I would have annoyed enough to do this on
> purpose.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give. :)

You're not alone, anyway, if that helps.  My sister sent me something
similar a couple of days ago but there was nothing that could even hint
at where it may have come from.  This is the closest I've seen yet
to a possible source:

> The original message was received at Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:31:46
> +0900
> (KST) from 1Cust177.tnt1.augusta.ga.da.uu.net [63.10.55.177]

Vince.
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