Spoofing Spammers

[dorion]

OK im getting sick of some(all) of the spam I'm getting. I was thinking is there a way to spoof the Mailer Daemon. You know when you get:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

person@intenet.com


I assume that spam scripts stop sending to those addresses that don't exist.

So is it possible to spoof the email, and would it work?

 

[grant2]

i use fastmail.fm web mail service and it has the ability to "bounce" emails after you've seen them.

 

[chcarnage]

The problem is that the from: Adress is never valid. Even the junk mails that want you to mail back include a second mail address in the body for this.

The only use I have for fake bounces is when a distant acquaintance mails me a hoax.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: dorion
OK im getting sick of some(all) of the spam I'm getting. I was thinking is there a way to spoof the Mailer Daemon. You know when you get:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

person@intenet.com


I assume that spam scripts stop sending to those addresses that don't exist.

So is it possible to spoof the email, and would it work?

What kind of email do you use? Most cases it probably is futile to try and do something like this. Most spam mails are through open proxies with faked reply-tos anyway. Almost everything else can be blocked pretty easily.

 

[Kelnoen]

http://www.mailwasher.net/

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: dorion
OK im getting sick of some(all) of the spam I'm getting. I was thinking is there a way to spoof the Mailer Daemon. You know when you get:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

person@intenet.com


I assume that spam scripts stop sending to those addresses that don't exist.

So is it possible to spoof the email, and would it work?

First off, this doesnt belong in HT. Second, while good in theory and usefull from around 98 to 2001, this technique doesn't do much good anymore.