Greetings!
Chances are that you’re here because you received some unsolicited commercial email (the polite words for SPAM) with a return address of <some_garbage>@victorfreyer.com.
You have my apologies.
Judging from the number of bounced messages I get every day,
there must be a lot of junk going out that bears my return address. Most
of it appears to be sourced from hijacked/zombie computers in the
For example, headers of an email that bounced back to me:
Return-Path:
<jozzi.APC@victorfreyer.com>
Received:
from ctmail.com (10.9.0.11) by C9mailgw05.amadis.com (NPlex
6.5.029)
id
42AB030500C0466D; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:27:22 -0700
Message-ID:
<42AB030500C0466D@C9mailgw05.amadis.com> (added by
postmaster@mail2world.com)
X-Commtouch-Loop:3
Received:
FROM [218.9.108.166] By c9diamond06.diamond.amadis.com ;
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:27:10 -0800
Received:
from coarsen.freudlemos.com (218.9.108.166)
by 218.9.108.166
(lousy v3.95) with SMTP
id
<412756ba6rsjgi>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:18:12 +0500
Reply-To:
"schruefer borek"
<NROCVGRCD@freudlemos.com>
From:
"schruefer borek"
<NROCVGRCD@freudlemos.com>
To:
(removed by me – an address at mail2freedom.com)
Cc:
(removed by me – multiple addresses at mail2freedom.com)
Subject:
Account 0452. Please Read
Date:
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:21:12 -0400
indicate that it originated from IP
address 218.9.108.166, which is administered at
I don’t know who’s more frustrated, you or me.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do to make it stop. Yet.
I have filed for a
For reference, it’s easy to send yourself an email that appears to come from any return address you care to use. Here’s an example:
telnet <your SMTP server> 25
HELO iambogus.whitehouse.gov
MAIL FROM: george_w_bush@whitehouse.gov
RCPT TO: <your email address>
DATA
The
Downing Street memo makes it clear that it was always my intention to invade
I apologize for misleading the American people and the citizens of the world. My resignation is effective at the end of this month.
You will be in capable hands with Mr. Cheney.
Sincerely,
G. Bush
.
QUIT
With a little programming and a list of potential email addresses, a spammer can send out hundreds, perhaps thousands of these little gems every minute.
Do your part to protect yourself. Never respond to spam, and never, NEVER, engage in a financial transaction based on unsolicited email.