 SteveI know your IP addressConsultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
kudos:5 | reply to CCCMTech
Re: [General] Hey SBC Techs, what's with abuse@pac said by CCCMTech:
So if my "Buy your Viagra" email was sent to you from a Korean connection by a Korean customer who decided to spoof an SBC email, you would blame SBC for the email?
The spoofing is irrelevant - you have to presume that you'll never find the real sender of the email.
But you know who benefits from the spam. If buy-viagra.com is run by me, and I'm an SBC customer, then it's a pretty easy jump to believe that I had something to do with the spam. You'd go after me as a beneficiary of the spam.
This happens all the time because otherwise people could spam with impugnity through Korea or whatever, and then claim "Well the email never touched SBC, so SBC can't touch me".
Steve
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CCCMTechPremium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-05-17
Baxter, KY | Let's say your not an SBC Customer and have no tie to it other than the SBC email you used a word list to make, but you do run buy-viagra.com....
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SteveI know your IP addressConsultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
kudos:5 | said by CCCMTech:
Let's say your not an SBC Customer and have no tie to it other than the SBC email you used a word list to make, but you do run buy-viagra.com....
You mean if buy-viagra.com is my website, but I host it elsewhere, and there was no concrete proof that I had anything to do with the emails?
That's easy: there's nothing you can do. One never uses a "From" address for abuse purposes.
Steve
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CCCMTechPremium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-05-17
Baxter, KY | I know I've received spam from "my email address" knowing I didn't send it...sometimes with a fake IP header such as 192.168.23.245 especially for pornographic spam.
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