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verison antispam

Author: R.Ringg (26 Jan 05 1:32am)

What's with all the mail coming from antispam#####@west.verizon.net. Every one I see coming to my mail server is checking for an email address that's never existed on my server nor any I've ever created. I'm also seeing a lot more mail attempts like that. It's not even a good dictionary attempt. Just totally random words for e-mail. Today I've seen mail addressed to

adjourning@
beater@
diablo@
seesaw@

etc, etc. They're not coming from the same ips. Spam bots randomly trying names/words on a domain could take many years before they hit any of mine.

Re: verison antispam

Author: J.Healy (26 Jan 05 3:20am)

My guess would be that some spammer is using random (fake) addresses on your domain as the "From:"/"Reply To:" address on the rubbish they're sending out. The spam is being detected at antispam#####@west.verizon.net and bounced back to the fake address on your domain.