Sandy
join:2000-08-12
Glendora, CA
3 edits | Email Abuse...but!
Someone is using MY email address (my adelphia.net one).
I've been getting TONS of returned mail (undeliverable) and it's all some ebay spam. The return path shows my email address, but it's not ME sending them out. I went in and changed my email password (even though that won't help, just being cautious), and now I can't log into my web email or my powerpage. (Still can access email thru Outlook though). I've emailed help at adelphia and have gotten no replies. Here's just ONE of MANY emails being returned to me (I've left in all the information on purpose except MY email address. Where it says "RETURN PATH"...MY adelphia.net address is in there):
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This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
absolutemusic@dj4me.com
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: my address is here
Received: from [66.143.65.73] (helo=adsl-66-143-65-73.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net)
by server.securesite5.com with smtp (Exim 4.24)
id 1AdpZW-0004Rb-6O
for absolutemusic@dj4me.com; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:40:30 +0000
Received: from [94.202.118.36] by adsl-66-143-65-73.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net id Ebf5YV4g6Q8e; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:38:32 +0300
Message-ID:
From: "My address is in here"
Reply-To: "My address is in here"
To:
Subject: Earn huge money quickly from home... qghx xgwf aqna
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 14:38:32 GMT
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="E4____07D2EAE5.B991"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
--E4____07D2EAE5.B991
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
order confirmation. your order should be s=
hipped by January, via fedex.
your federal express tracking number is luncheon.
thank you for registering. your userid is:
compartment
Learn to Make A Fortune With Ebay!
Complete Turnkey System
Software - Videos - Turo=
rials
Click Here For Information
click
here if you would not like to =
receive future mailings.
--E4____07D2EAE5.B991-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I copied the one with this dickwads url (oopsie...can I say "dickwad" here?? LOL)...I've done a "whois" and emailed the tech dept, and of course...SURPRISE...a bogus email. I've emailed his hosting company and anyone else listed on that page (yea...I was pissed). I even went to the affiliate proggy he's signed up with and reported him for spam (TOS thing).
Can I get the boot from Adelphia for spamming? I still haven't recieved a reply from adelphia 
Thanks in advance!
Sandy
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Meeble
join:2002-09-19
Champaign, IL | when someone sends an email they can make the return path whatever they want
so i can send an email from meep@peem.com with a return addy of you@yours.net
any failures etc will go to you and not their email they sent it from |
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Sandy
join:2000-08-12
Glendora, CA
| That I understand....but I'm wondering if I can get the boot from Adelphia for Spam. (Adelphia thinking it's ME that's doing this spamming).
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~~Life isn't like a box of chocolates..it's more like a jar of jalapenos.What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow~~ |
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MacLeech
The one and only
Premium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
1 edit | said by email header:
Received: from [66.143.65.73] (helo=adsl-66-143-65-73.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net)
Looking at the headers of the email, you can tell the email isn't coming from you (or any Adelphia IP).
You're not spamming, somebody putting in your email address as a "Reply to:" address is.
Adelphia won't cut you off for that.
You might want to contact securesite5.com, somebody might be abusing their email servers...
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Adelphia - Is it working now? |
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swcox
Adelphia High Speed Internet
Premium
join:2001-11-21
Greeneville, TN
| reply to Sandy
I'd suggest you contact the Abuse Dept at SouthWest Bell (swbell.net).
adsl-66-143-65-73.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net
That is a DSL customer, probably in Texas, spamming using your email address as the Reply-To. Old spamming trick. Makes life miserable for the target, in this case you.
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Sandy
join:2000-08-12
Glendora, CA
| said by swcox  :
Makes life miserable for the target, in this case you.
No shit! lol! Okay, emailed swbell and also securesite5.com (along with his hosting company...hahahaha). Hopefully he will regret messing with me (Hey, I can dream right...lol).
Any ideas why I can no longer log into my powerpage or web based email though?
THANKS for those tips...at least his ip# is the same in all the return emails I'm getting!!
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UglyDork
Premium
join:2002-01-09
Buffalo, NY
 ·Vonage
2 edits | reply to Sandy
Reply from 66.143.65.73: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.143.65.73: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.143.65.73: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.143.65.73: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=238
He/She is online right now...everybody ping him at once  (just kidding)
Now that I think of it, this person's PC may have been hijacked and is being used as a spam relay. Another example of why it is good to have a firewall. |
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LrdVader
Premium
join:2003-12-18
San Diego, CA
| According to DSBL, that box has all kinds of open proxies on it:
»dsbl.org/listing?66.143.65.73
So you may want to present it to swbell (actually SBC these days) as "your customer's machine is compromised, you should tell them to clean their machine", rather than "your customer is a spammer, you should kick them off". |
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Sandy
join:2000-08-12
Glendora, CA
| Well, I just emailed their abuse dept...not really requesting them to be "kicked off"...but to get to the bottom of it to get it stopped.
Hopefully their abuse depts will do some digging and contact that person to find out what's up.
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~~Life isn't like a box of chocolates..it's more like a jar of jalapenos.What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow~~ |
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