Jan Wildeboer 😷

Silly spammer "revenge". When you report spam in ways that it actually does something, some spammers get cranky about that and:

- Use a domain that is about to expire
- Use google mail for that domain
- set up a reflector e-mail address on that domain
- Run a script that spams hundreds of support systems of innocent websites
- Redirect the replies to those support tickets to my email address via google mail

Silly, but it seems to make the spammers happy.

#SelfHost #MailAdmin

Apr 3 at 9:24amWeb
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷1d ago

Some addresses they use:

- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]

You can clearly see how it's just a frustrated guy hammering his keyboard to create these email addresses :)

The one thing they all have in common is that these about-to-expire domains are registered via gname.com from Singapore.

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷1d ago
How do I know this is connected to my spam reporting? Simple. The reporting email address I use when reporting spam is different per report. So when I get these redirected replies, I know exactly to which report it belongs ;)
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷1d ago
These cranky spammers use google groups to flood mailboxes. And Google seemingly doesn't care about taking action on mailing lists from domains that will expire in a few days anyway. So it's cheap and simple for the spammers :)
Show threadosmodia13h ago
@jwildeboer they don‘t care. I also reported many of them - nothing happenend
Show threadSolomon1d ago

@jwildeboer "[…] it seems to make the [..] happy." 👀 Well, isn't that quite a common reaction of some kind of people nowadays, when forced to face any sort of contradiction?

#FragileMasculinity

Show threadJulian1d ago
@jwildeboer I also received a lot of spam mails from at least one of that addresses this morning.
Show threadBjoernAusGE1d ago
@mialikescoffee @jwildeboer me too especially on my postmaster address
Show threadGabriel N1d ago

@jwildeboer “when you report spam in ways that it actually does something”

Curious minds would like to know!

I had a number of spammers damaging my account for over a decade. I used Spamcop regularly and reported them many times, to no avail. Filtering ended up being my only viable choice.

The spam only stopped because I changed my domain.

Show threadKonstantin 1d ago
@jwildeboer What is the way to report spam that actually does something?
Show threadErik van Straten1d ago

@kpwn : No Such Solution Exists.

@jwildeboer

#Spam #Phishing

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷1d ago
@kpwn A combination of Spamcop, consistently delivering good reports with full headers and raw content of spam to the abuse departments of sendgrid, Amazon and yes, even hotmail. And knowing that Google doesn't really care and happily enables tons of spammers.
Show threadosmodia13h ago

@jwildeboer it‘s done via Google Workspaces and mailinglists. Spammers are allowed to add targeted mailaddresses without optin.

Easy to catch by checking mailheaders for mailinglist-ids and/or google unsubscribe links.

There are 2-3 „rounds“ of such mails every day.