Re: [Sonic #1908066] spam bounces have my email address

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert )]

 > From: "Sonic.net Tech Support" <http://www.sonic.net/~support>
 > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:57:22 -0700
 >
 > Hello,
 > 
 > It appears that this is a joe job e-mail bounce. A joe job is a
 > spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed
 > sender data. It is used by commercial spammers to conceal the true
 > origin of their messages.

Yes, this is definitely what is happening in this particular case.

 > Unfortunately there is little we can do on our end to reduce these bounce 
 > messages, and as your e-mail address is being used as the reply to address, 
 > there is no way to remove your sonic.net e-mail from them as you are not 
 > sending these out and it is not being sent from sonic.net mail servers. 

I just realized that you're right!  It's actually the people who are
forwarding to my address that are [stupidly] embedding my email in the
body of the message.

I'll have to contact them.

Thanks, and sorry for wasting your bandwidth!  Sonic.NET is great!

 > If the flood of bounce back messages is severe you can black list
 > Mailer Daemon but this would also prevent legitimate bounce messages
 > from getting to you. So we recommend black listing as a last resort
 > and only having the blacklisting of Mailer Daemon up temporarily.
 > 
 > Typically the flood of joe job bounce messages takes a few days to
 > slow down and usually they stop after a week or so, as the spammers
 > move on to spoofing other e-mail address as the sender.
 > 
 > Hopefully these will slow down and stop shortly, realistically it
 > just takes time for this type of spam to stop.
 > 
 > Thank you
 > 
 > Andrew R.			http://www.sonic.net/~support
 > Sonic.net Support		707.547.3400
 > Santa Rosa, CA 95407		http://www.sonic.net/support/