Re: Contacting an Open Relay server user by spammer

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It could be a case of forged headers.  I've had that on one of my
accounts. Mail bounced back to me that a spammer sent, but it didn't come
from that account.

Mark

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Mark Cooke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine has just received about 200 spam mails (why 200, beats me),
> Anyway, I have found out from the headers, who received what and who was
> the initial point of injection, I want to contact the point of injection
> and warn that person that their box is being used for an open relay,
> without contacting their isp (and getting them in trouble).
> 
> The problem is looking at their IP, it seems to be a blueyonder broadband
> account, I wish to somehow contact the person on that address and advise
> them of this, I have their hostname and IP address.
> 
> I tried to telnet to port 25 on that IP, yet it never received a reply,
> which  would seem that their smtp sever isn't open, yet they did send the
> mail through their open rely sever.
> 
> Email headers:
> 
> Received: from mail.pcc.edu.cn ([211.65.116.10]) by
> mc7-f9.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Tue, 21 Jan
> 2003 10:41:13 -0800
>       Received: from smtp0542.mail.yahoo.com
> (pc-80-193-4-51-nm.blueyonder.co.uk [80.193.4.51])(authenticated bits=0)by
> mail.pcc.edu.cn (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0LItEL9003808for
> <tuesday350@hotmail.com>; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:55:23 +0800
> 
> 
> Spammer: smtp0542.mail.yahoo.com
> OpenRelay Server: pc-80-193-4-51-nm.blueyonder.co.uk [80.193.4.51]
> 
> 
> Any advise is greaty received.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mark
> 



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