Re: Email address hijacked by spammers

From: Ryan Gibson <ryan_at_kbitraining.com>
Date: Mon 03 Nov 2003 05:58:30 -0600

The chances are, your email is on an open-relay system. Find this out,
and ask them to change it if they have your email as open-relay. I had
the same thing happen to me on my kbitraining.com account because Blue
Genesis had by deafault all of their new accounts running on an
open-relay. Spammers write robots to search the internet for domains
that are open like this, and choose you randomly.

It's a 50/50 chance that this is what happened.

Otherwise it was done through spoofing, which spammers can do in an
automated spam software. Whereby they enter in the domain name to be
spammed-off of, and the software scrambles the IP of where the email is
being sent from, usually they are on through-away pop accounts, and no
return address. These are generally the porn and casino spammers.
Unfortunately, if this is the case, there is not much you can do about
it other than try to sue them...which is unlikely to produce anything.
There have been a few cases where the FBI has become involved with this
form of emailing, as it is Cyber Terrorism.

Sincerely,

Ryan A Gibson
Sales and Marketing
BC TIA
1430 - 1188 West Georiga St
Vancouver BC V6E 4A2
P.604.683.6159
C.604.418.3633
F.604.683.3879
www.bctia.org



Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 05:58:30 CST