Bill Henry-
Brussel Sprout Connoisseur
It appears that I am at the same time both victim and “perpetrator” of some spoofing campaign.
For the past few weeks I have received about a dozen messages in my In Box saying that mail sent from an address on my site (subscribe@framersloft.com) was being returned as undeliverable. The problem is that I didn’t send any of them.
I fear that it may be like one of those “reply now with your account information” sent by your supposed bank to phish your social security number and credit card info.
I contacted my ISP and they said that it appeared to be “spoofing” i.e.
I’ve got a nephew (in-law) who is a feeb who might be able to guide me through this mess, but it’s not likely that the powers that be in that agency would consider this as much of a problem as I do.
I am so p****ed!
For the past few weeks I have received about a dozen messages in my In Box saying that mail sent from an address on my site (subscribe@framersloft.com) was being returned as undeliverable. The problem is that I didn’t send any of them.
I fear that it may be like one of those “reply now with your account information” sent by your supposed bank to phish your social security number and credit card info.
I contacted my ISP and they said that it appeared to be “spoofing” i.e.
Unfortunately, I cannot view the text of the message that was returned to me as undeliverable, so I don’t know how potentially destructive these e-mails are to my business. Obviously, whatever scam is being generated, I don’t want my name associated with it, but, according to my ISP and CERT, there is nothing I can do about it! … except contact the FBI.… the creation of TCP/IP packets using somebody else's IP address. Routers use the "destination IP" address in order to forward packets through the Internet, but ignore the "source IP" address. That address is only used by the destination machine when it responds back to the source.
So far there has being no developments to prevent spoofing......The following site contains detailed information on spoofing and some of the preventions you can take:
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html#III
I’ve got a nephew (in-law) who is a feeb who might be able to guide me through this mess, but it’s not likely that the powers that be in that agency would consider this as much of a problem as I do.
I am so p****ed!