bunny007.com and spam
| Bunny 007 has owned the www.bunny007.com
domain for probably around a decade now, and used it to
show off his photographic work.
He stopped doing so some time ago, when the bunny007.com address was appropriated by spammers. Recently, however, he has decided to "Sod the bloody
spammers!" but is posting this warning not to buy Russian brides,
worthless shares, pills, penis enlargers or other dubious merchandise offered in
spam emails
purporting to come from bunny007.com. The 'From' field of these emails contains "something@bunny007.com", where the 'something' is usually a random set of characters. According to my ISP, it is an easy matter to doctor an email header so that it appears to have been sent from any address a spammer might desire, presumably to lend junk mail an air of legitimacy. My ISP also assures me that the spam is not being sent via their mail servers - it is being sent from somewhere else, in other words, and has nothing at all to do with Bunny 007, his internet domain or his Internet Service Provider. The only connection Bunny 007 has with the spam is the fact that some arsehole wants his victims to think Bunny 007 sent it. I do not know how much spam goes out in my name - I only learn of those messages which fail to be delivered for some reason: an email filter recognises them as spam, the recipient's address is incorrect, etc. When something like this happens I get a failure notice from the receiving mail sever, which also shows the text of the message that could not be delivered. A reply address will be contained somewrhere in the message and this, of course, is not a bunny007 address since it is necessary that mugs can communicate with the spammers and send them money. The Russian bride spam that is currently pretending to come from bunny007.com has various reply addresses, but all ending in "@yandex.ru". (It's in Russian, but yandex.ru looks something like a basic version of Yahoo's homepage, and yes, yandex.mail does provide a free email service!) In the hope of frustrating any potential transactions resulting from bunny007 spam, below is a copy of a recent 'Failed to deliver' notice that I have received. The details of the intended recipient have been edited out. (I have received numerous failure notices quoting the exact same message shown here, but with different girls' names.) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailer-daemon@googlemail.com] To: rnaplgkitjpoz@bunny007.com Cc: Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.co.uk Reporting-MTA: dns;xxxxxxxx.co.uk Received-From-MTA: dns;[999.9.99.99] Arrival-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:24:07 +0100 Final-Recipient: xxxxxx;xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.co.uk Action: failed Status: 5.1.1
Hello xxxxxxxx!!! My name is Evgeniya, to me of 25
years. I live in Russia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And here's another one: This is the mail system at host softcode.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <_plesk_bounce_xxxxxxxx.com@localhost.localdomain> (expanded from <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com>): This address no longer accepts mail.
Hi, my name is Olga, I'm from a small city in Russia. I am 24 years old.
I liked you very much :-) ( P.S. Do not push REPLY button. Use only my personal email ofijativ@yandex.ru ) _______________________
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