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Damn You Spamming Robots

Since 11:30PM last night and this morning, I've gotten over 420 540 620 "Undelivered Mail Returned To Sender" (and the like) messages in my inbox. Apparently some automated spamming robot decided to spam a crapload of people faking the reply-to address to bounce back to me, basically using my server as their trash can. Usually these things just get sent to /dev/null, as they'll use invalid reply-to addresses, but this time they used the one I actually use. Looking at the headers of the messages that were bounced back...

Return-Path: <jake@mydomain.com>
Received: from green.shirasaki.co.jp (green.shirasaki.co.jp [202.238.50.147])
by green.shirasaki.co.jp (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.2) with SMTP id 03MF0M61F00001658
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:22:47 +0900
Received: from 59.12.13.99 ([59.12.13.99])
by green.shirasaki.co.jp (SMSSMTP 4.1.0.19) with SMTP id M2008042300224602851
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:22:47 +0900
Message-ID: <000801c8a48c$0321b897$914eb19a@nubfw>
From: "Leivtra Cylais" <jake@mydomain.com>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Free Viagar Pilsl. takahashi's discount Coupon #GYJTN.
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:35:18 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C8A48C.031BAD84"
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
...it's fairly obvious these didn't come from my server (this particular one came from some ISP in Korea). I need to go through some of the other messages and start digging through the IP addresses to see if there is a few that are the bulk of it so I can report them IPs to the appropriate abuse folks.

Anybody know a bulk way to search through these in Outlook 2003?

Posted by Jake on 04/22/08 @ 09:20 AM
Posted in Geekdom, Jake | Permalink



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