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From: "Andreas Eibach" <a.eibach@gmx.net>
To: "Dale Amon" <amon@vnl.com>, "J Sloan" <jjs@toyota.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:51:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016a01c0cdb8$cae42600$f60b07d5@andreas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010417190405.PTFU6564.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@mail.vger.kernel.org> <3ADC9ACC.A9FB19A@lexus.com> <20010423201244.G26083@vnl.com>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Amon" <amon@vnl.com>
To: "J Sloan" <jjs@toyota.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested


> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:34:36PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
> > J.I.@toyota.com wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Friend:
> > >
> > > YOU CAN make over a half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from
> > > your home for a one time investment of only twenty five U.S.
> > > Dollars.
> >
> > This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply
> > used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are careful
> > about mail server security here, there is no open relay.
> >
>
> Yeah, I saw it to with *MY* domain on it and near had a fit!

Well it's kinda easy to protect yourself against this crap...
Just look through your mailer for 'dollar' || 'dollars' in the *body* of the
message, or more than two exclamation marks in the subject - and you shall
find the bastards ;-)

0.02 e
andreas


      reply	other threads:[~2001-04-25 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20010417190405.PTFU6564.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@mail.vger.kernel.org>
2001-04-17 19:18 ` Your response is requested Dave Zarzycki
2001-04-17 19:25   ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-17 19:26   ` Nathan Dabney
2001-04-17 19:26   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-17 19:27   ` Disconnect
2001-04-17 19:44     ` John Jasen
2001-04-17 20:17       ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-04-17 19:28   ` Doug McNaught
2001-04-17 20:03   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 23:03   ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-18  6:27     ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-17 19:34 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-04-23 19:12   ` Dale Amon
2001-04-25 18:51     ` Andreas Eibach [this message]

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