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Re: OT..... help..AOL users? (Fri Nov 14 19:43:17 2003 )
rayd [View profile ]


Hi there,

I know exactly what is happening, i think. What 
it is called is spoofing, an spam mail king has 
got a hold of your email address and is spoofing 
it as his return address. To rid your self of the 
remailer messages, these are the messages that 
cant arrive at a destination cause it doesnt 
exist so they head back home, that happens 
because of other peoples now defunct accounts. 
The problem is the home address is your spoofed 
email address. Dont worry, they dont have your 
password or access to your email, they just have 
your email address and are taking advantage of a 
known flaw in email inherited from the olden days.
Now for the fun part to rid your self of them. 
You need to FORWARD a couple of those emails to 
TOSREPORTS@aol.com (or it could be 
TOSREPORT@ao.com) my memory fails with old age. 
and explain that the attached forward email is 
being spoofed in the body of the letter. Within 
the header(not seen initially, only in the 
details) of those returned emails contains the 
true mailer of the spam. They can then block that 
account from using your email address, but you 
may need to send more than one of the returned 
emails cause the spammers use a mechanism of 
rotating mail servers. I hope this helps a little.
Been an aoler since 91, back in the day when it 
was ao-who and compus-what, and couldnt change 
even if i wanted to, too many contacts know my 
account that it would take me six months to drop 
it and get a new one. 



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