[Novalug] Obvious SPAM

[Jay Hart]

I'll check into this, thanks.

Jay

> I would look into using SPF if you're seriously concerned about address
> spoofing, but this won't really help you for the FROM address, only the
> return-path.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
>
> -DMZ
>
>
> On 2/4/08 8:10 AM, "Jay Hart" <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
>
>> Received this email today. Its an obvious spam email, but what has me a
>> little
>> concerned is that they spoofed the 'from' address. I've attached the full
>> header and email below.
>>
>> Two things:
>>
>> 1. How worried should I be about the address spoofing? Should I be worried
>> at
>> all about this, or just treat it like a normal spam email?
>>
>> 2. I think its funny they mention MSN featured offers.  Ain't no way...  I
>> signed up for that crap.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> ----begin header-----
>> Return-Path: <jhartke at jwterrill.com>
>> X-Original-To: jhart at kevla.org
>> Delivered-To: jhart at kevla.org
>> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>>      by email.kevla.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEE856AEB
>>      for <jhart at kevla.org>; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:51:57 -0500 (EST)
>> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kevla.org
>> X-Spam-Score: 1.939
>> X-Spam-Level: *
>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.939 tagged_above=-100 required=4.1
>>      tests=[AWL=-6.233, BAYES_50=0.001, HTML_90_100=0.113,
>>      HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.001, NO_REAL_NAME=0.961,
>>      URIBL_JP_SURBL=4.087, URIBL_OB_SURBL=3.008]
>> Received: from email.kevla.org ([127.0.0.1])
>>      by localhost (email.kevla.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
>>      with ESMTP id FWFgUqrqNlVm for <jhart at kevla.org>;
>>      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:51:47 -0500 (EST)
>> Received: from edunet-static-145.87-197-64.telecom.sk
>> (edunet-static-145.87-197-64.telecom.sk [87.197.64.145])
>>      by email.kevla.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F205A5698A
>>      for <jhart at kevla.org>; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:51:41 -0500 (EST)
>> Content-Return: allowed
>> X-Mailer: CME-V6.5.4.3; MSN
>> Received: (qmail 7760 by uid 597); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:56:11 +0100
>> Message-Id:
>> <20080204125611.7762.qmail at edunet-static-145.87-197-64.telecom.sk>
>> To: <jhart at kevla.org>
>> Subject: February 71% OFF
>> From: <jhart at kevla.org>
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:51:41 -0500 (EST)
>> -------end header--------
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------ Original Message
>> ------------------------------
>> Subject: February 71% OFF
>> From:    jhart at kevla.org
>> Date:    Mon, February 4, 2008 5:51 am
>> To:      jhart at kevla.org
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>                                                         Men and Women's
>> find Gucci,
>> Prada, Chanel,
>> Dior and More
>> Top Designer
>> Brands 77% OFF.
>> Coupon #66381.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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