Re: [Asrg] What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Thu, 02 July 2009 16:46 UTC

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--On 2 July 2009 12:27:57 -0400 Chris Lewis <clewis@nortel.com> wrote:

> Bill Cole wrote:
>> Ian Eiloart wrote, On 7/2/09 6:23 AM:
>
>>> Exercise for the reader: why aren't spammers using the @ibm.com domain?
>>
>> You provided the answer before the question.
>
> Somewhat.  Because spammers _are_ using @ibm.com too.  I got samples ;-)

Ok, but it's trivial to reject them after checking SPF.

> Anybody saying "spammers don't do X" and "spammers do X" are wrong at
> least some of the time.  Except for the obvious tautology that "spammers
> spam".
>
>> Forged sender addresses are predominantly harvested rather than purely
>> invented or recombinantly assembled.
>
> IOW: the biggest asset spammers have is lists of potential spam victim's
> email addresses.
>
> What better place to get the email addresses to forge as sender than from
> the exact same list?  Is it so hard to imagine that a bot might do this
> or some variation?
>
> 1) Read a bunch of addresses
> 2) Spam the bunch of addresses, forged with one of the bunch as sender
> 3) Goto step 1
>
> Various corollaries:
>
> - If you get spam, you're probably being forged as sender in other spam.
>
> - If they're hitting valid addresses, then there will be blowback _to_
> valid addresses.
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