Jan Wildeboer 😷

When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will:

- set up a forwarding email address on one of their servers with good DKIM/SPF/DMARC, typically on a domain that will expire soon
- Run a script that spams hundreds of support addresses/web forms with nonsense content using that forwarding address
- Forward all the confirmation receipts to your email address

That stuff is easy to block, but can be quite a nuisance to the affected support teams.

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Mar 20 at 5:00pmWeb
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 20

I guess they will also use the support forms to try to subscribe me to whatever marketing stuff from there.

So I look forward to interesting messages from Bavarian restaurants, Austrian doctors and swiss lawyers :)

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Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 20

So I guess for the next few days you can send an e-mail to [email protected] and it will reach me ;)

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Show threadLarvitz Mar 20
@jwildeboer @homelab Free E-Mail alias 🙂 Some people pay money for that 😂
Show threadTatoneMar 23
@jwildeboer
Show threadTatoneMar 23
@jwildeboer I didn't report any spamming, still one of our email addresses started receiving all those autoresponders directed at
[email protected]
I saw that this domain shall expire at the end of the month; hopefully theses emails will stop soon after!?
Show threadbbbhltzMar 20

@jwildeboer

ooooooh, so that's what's happening with one of my email addresses!

Show threadJulianMar 20
@jwildeboer It's probably not related to you reporting them. Most often I'm too lazy to do that and I still get the same kind of spam recently.
Show threadadingbatponder  ðŸ‘¾Mar 20
@jwildeboer @homelab That is sad indeed. One email address per service might be good to avoid the problem and just shut that one down but... scary to organise , right?
Why can one not set up email with a key system so if sender does not have the public key it goes into spam?
Show threadheineMar 20
@jwildeboer so you assume they do this out of pure revenge? I had this in the past and wondered what was happening. But I never reported anything, I think 🤔