Hijacked email address.

[Jose R R]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:

> Jose,
>
> Jose R R wrote:
> > Good morning (California), RH list members-
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to deal with those who take over one's reputable
> > email address to send spam??  This morning I have received an
> considerable
> > amount of returned emails that I never sent out but that have as return
> path
> > the usual p***y cowards' signature <>  and some even my actual email
> > address.  And no, those did not originate from my account.
> >
> > Below is an fragment of one that even attempted to join an google group:
> <snip>
> > Return-Path: <myEmailAdress>
> > Received: from e178002010.adsl.alicedsl.de (e178002010.adsl.alicedsl.de
> >         [85.178.2.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
> >         v36si10460476wah.3.2008.04.15.08.34.33; Tue, 15 Apr 2008
> 08:34:39
> > -0700
> >         (PDT)
> > Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 85.178.2.10 is neither permitted nor
> >         denied by best guess record for domain of myEmailAdress)
> >         client-ip=85.178.2.10;
>
> Well, I'd start by doing a whois on the address, which I see seems to be a
> legit telecom in Hamburg, Germany. So, I'd email abuse at hansenet.com to
> complain.
>
>    mark
>
I appreciate all your replies.

My main concern is, evidently, that my domain is blacklisted as a result of
all of the unsolicited crap sent on my name.

And yes Mark, your recommendation of complaining to the abuse contact point
address is appreciated but I am also concerned, as in past sporadic
occasions that I did complain, that there is a certain complicity in some
(or many) ISPs since they allow the indiscriminate sending of mail.

One thing that I noted in some batch of 63 returned is that 51 of those
have: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138

------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "viagar cialsi " <MyEmailAddress>
To: <hti at aca.fi>
Subject: 85% off for hti
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:39:11 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
[...]
--------------------------------------------------------------------

In other words, the increase of MS pseudo technology is proportional to the
amount of spam out there.

Best regards,

Jose R Rodriguez
http://www.metztli-it.com