Mainframeguy
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during the past week I have been getting the odd returned email, undeliverable. Always with the same subject line ("Undeliverable mail: Äåïàðòàìåíò (044) 5372077 Ðå*êëà*ìû") involving cyrillic letters I guess. Looks like Ukranian domains are exclusively involved. There are attachments - my suspicion is cyrillic spam, because no virii or suchlike seems involved.
I guess I am a little lax with my email, I think i even leave it there on IRC (I can hear some of you tutting) and it has been hoovered up by some spidering spam bot.
My question is not so much what has happened - it looks pretty obvious my email address is being used to spoof and I am getting some come back from spam failures. My question is more what should I do about it, if there si anything I could do? I am worried the answer might be that I should shut down that email account - because that is going to be a major pain to me, it is my primary POP3 account and is used for the majority of my online subscription needs.
I look forward to your feedback - of whatever nature, information is always good to have even if it is the bad news you fear!
[EDIT] I attached also the little partial GIF image file that I can see in IE which makes me pretty sure it is Ukranian spam (though what for I have no idea!) [/EDIT]
I guess I am a little lax with my email, I think i even leave it there on IRC (I can hear some of you tutting) and it has been hoovered up by some spidering spam bot.
My question is not so much what has happened - it looks pretty obvious my email address is being used to spoof and I am getting some come back from spam failures. My question is more what should I do about it, if there si anything I could do? I am worried the answer might be that I should shut down that email account - because that is going to be a major pain to me, it is my primary POP3 account and is used for the majority of my online subscription needs.
I look forward to your feedback - of whatever nature, information is always good to have even if it is the bad news you fear!
[EDIT] I attached also the little partial GIF image file that I can see in IE which makes me pretty sure it is Ukranian spam (though what for I have no idea!) [/EDIT]
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