okboomer
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Hey folks, I belong to another gun forum that is being hit really hard with spammer bots lately.
It just ramped up a notch this week and I thought I would post a notice here and let you know what I have found out.
This message was sent through the forum messaging to all the members and also included a tagline that indicated he was part of the Forum Administration and included the bbs administration info particular to that forum.
Their conclusion was that any spam was being sent under a spoofed email and they wanted the originating ISP for the spam for their abuse and legal departments.
They were also interested in my membership in a forum that was experiencing DOS attacks and want me to report the next attack.
Evidently, the US is experiencing a major increase in spam attacks at this time and the backbone (Level II) and hubs (Level I) systems are trying to identify and plug the vulnerable spots that are being used to sneak this stuff past the guards that are already in place.
Anyway, some of the folks in some Yahoo Groups have also reported that this email has even made it's way to their personal email accounts, so if you get something like it, don't panic, but report it to your ISP spam abuse department.
If you want to report it to AT&T rather than a local ISP, forward the email toscam@abuse-att(dot)netand they will pursue this.
cheers - okboomer
Hey folks, I belong to another gun forum that is being hit really hard with spammer bots lately.
It just ramped up a notch this week and I thought I would post a notice here and let you know what I have found out.
This message was sent through the forum messaging to all the members and also included a tagline that indicated he was part of the Forum Administration and included the bbs administration info particular to that forum.
Well, I run a pretty tight ship here in my home network and I could not believe that my computers or my account had been virused, trojaned or spywared to this level without my anti software picking up anything. So, I ran all my diagnostic programs and called AT&T which is my ISP. They checked my account activity and confirmed that no spam was being sent from any of my accounts.
Their conclusion was that any spam was being sent under a spoofed email and they wanted the originating ISP for the spam for their abuse and legal departments.
They were also interested in my membership in a forum that was experiencing DOS attacks and want me to report the next attack.
Evidently, the US is experiencing a major increase in spam attacks at this time and the backbone (Level II) and hubs (Level I) systems are trying to identify and plug the vulnerable spots that are being used to sneak this stuff past the guards that are already in place.
Anyway, some of the folks in some Yahoo Groups have also reported that this email has even made it's way to their personal email accounts, so if you get something like it, don't panic, but report it to your ISP spam abuse department.
If you want to report it to AT&T rather than a local ISP, forward the email toscam@abuse-att(dot)netand they will pursue this.
cheers - okboomer
