Markus’ Blog

Has your e-mail address ever been used as sender address in spam? Count yourself lucky if your answer is no. Mine has — as of yesterday night. My main e-mail address, that is, the one I never give out to sign up for something, the one I never enter on web forms. Bloody fuck!

Needless to say I am highly pissed.

I hate spam and consider spammers the scum of mankind in the 21st century. And now this. Guys, I hate you lots already, you don’t need to try getting me to hate you even more.

So far, the fall out has “only” been bounces (“mail could not be delivered”) and auto replies (“Thank you for your e-mail regarding ‘V*1*AGRA’. I am currently out of the office, but will read your e-mail when I return.”). I got 50 51 of those between Mar. 27, 22:56 and Mar. 28, 04:52 Mar. 28, 08:05.

If that’s it, then I got away fairly “good”. I don’t think it’s over yet, though. What pisses me off the most is that I can’t do ANYTHING about it. NOTHING. They send spam with my e-mail address and I get to sit back and watch, and receive — at the very least — all the bounces and auto replies. However, if I’m truly “lucky”, I’ll get (some of) the blame for sending the spam, too.

I am waiting for two things now:

1. that those fucking bastards keep re-useing my e-mail address in future spam runs, i.e. it’ll never end and I’ll have to can my e-mail address. They have it now, so why not keep using it. Stuff it into a big database and have the spam sending software randomly pick it.
2. for pissed off people, who still don’t know that spammers fake sender addresses, telling me to stop trying to sell them pills or other shit and threatening me with law suits or something.

Just lovely.

I am dying to know how they got a hold of my e-mail address. That would be very, very, VERY interesting. Alas, I am never going to find out.

PS: Oh, another bounce just came in as I was typing this post. I had no idea I was fluent in Russian (and Mandarin, too, by the way, just in case anybody was wondering):

This is the Postfix program at host mail.ngks.ru.

1. Спе�и�ика �еле�онн�� пе�егово�ов. �б�ение без виз�ал�ного кон�ак�а: важное п�еим��е��во п�и пе�егово�а�. (Уп�ажнение).
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