someone has put one of my addresses in the “from” of a spam. The first I knew about it ws this morning, when there were ten bounce messages in my own incoming spam folder; apparently I have been selling life insurance all night to people at dial.pipex.com addresses who don’t exist.
Fortunately, the spammers used an address I am happy to give out because everything that comes into it that is non from a recognised mailing list gets stuffed unread into the spam folder, and automatically expired after a day at most.
The mail header says in part :
Return-Path:
Received: (qmail 29110 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2002 06:16:29 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ?domain) (202.107.227.100)
by depot-6.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 15 Jun 2002 06:16:29 -0000
From: alloneword@dial.pipex.com
And when I check out 202.107.227.100, I find
Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC2)
These addresses have been further assigned to Asia-Pacific users.
Contact info can be found in the APNIC database,
at WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/
Please do not send spam complaints to APNIC.
Which suggests that plenty of people before me have had reason to spend spam complaints. GNAAAAAH.
The whois search runs out there, too. So I suppose I had just better sit bck and wait for my spam box to fill up. And, I guess, contact Pipex to explain my problems. Bollocks.