Damned Spamers

[infrogmation]

Grrr.
Anyone else been getting spam or bounces of spam that was forged to look like it came from your personal email address?
I've got a pile of bounces of Make $ex Fast spam with my address forged on it; from headers looks like from or via rain.fr

Any thoughts about this going beyond annoying into the illegal territory of identity theft?

Comments

[portia.livejournal.com]

I want to do something to the email on my new laptop to block spam. Since you are an expert on the subject what should I do to filter that crap out? Is there an easy program I can install or something? Can you email me or post something in your LJ for anti-spam rookies like me? (The easier the better.) Thanks.

(Sorry to use your journal to solicit help from someone else Froggy.)

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about filtering on Windows machines, but spampal (http://www.twinlobber.org.uk/spampal/) looks pretty good. It sits between your mail server and your mail reader, so you read mail just like you normally would. It checks the sender of each email against a couple of DNSBLs (blocklists) to determine what mail to block. There are a bunch of DNSBLs out there, each run by different people, each with different standards for who they will and will not block. The ones I like best are relays.osirusoft.com and relays.ordb.org.

If you install spampal and tell it to use those two DNSBLs, it will probably cut your spam in half.

[portia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot.