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Just a note - if you’ve sent me any important email in the last 24 hours, then please re-send. I’ve had to wipe my mailboxes due to a 10,000 strong backscatter of bounced email…

The term backscatter describes the email an innocent victim receives when a spammer forges the victim’s email address into a spam run. The amount of mail involved can be just a few emails or can range into the hundreds of thousands of emails. Terry Zink recently wrote an 18 part series on backscatter.

About a week ago I was doing my usual email check, which seems to be at least every hour these days, but this time was a little different. Instead of the usual scattering of messages I had an inbox full of bouncebacks from messages that I never sent. The mail titles included words like VIARGA and CYALIS.

Secondary screening consists of: 1. Walking through the metal detector. 2. Bag Check (piece by piece). 3. Hand-Wand 4. Pat-Down (torso & leg) 5. You may opt to be x-rayed by the Millimeter Wave or BackScatter where available in lieu of a pat-down or hand-wand.  The TSO (transportation security officer) should ask you the following: 1.

We've seen that BATV is one of the better mechanisms to stop backscatter, the question now is how do we use it?  What stuff does it potentially break? Some of the commenters in my other posts have alluded to it when they have said that you can't use BATV unless you have an SPF policy that dictates a hard fail on your outbound mail.  Why is that?

I wrote the below article for Travel Weekly and they were nice enough to publish it.  Thank you Rob Fixmer and Travel Weekly. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant.

NDR Spam and You Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Sue Walsh GFI has released a white paper examining NDR spam. NDRs (Non Delivery Reports) are simply the “bounce back” message a sender gets when their email is rejected by the recipient’s mail server. This usually happens if the address is invalid or the sender’s has been added to a blacklist.

Recently there has been a lot of discussion and reports about an increasing amount of NDR messages triggered by spam. Since the NDR problem become a major factor in the spam world, and I noticed that there are some confusion about it, I thought it’s important that I’ll give a short overview of the

You might remember a while ago we mentioned MP3 spam, which in October last year was the latest evolution in spam. Currently there is a new type annoying mail-server owners the world over, it’s known as NDR or Backscatter Spam and involved NDRs or Non Delivery Reports (those emails you get when you send a mail [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({...

Today I heard yet another email administrator complaining about waves of backscatter spam frustrating him and his users- and his complaint was that users were complaining about it instead of just deleting it.