[ale] Increase in fake mail bounce messages??

[Jim Popovitch]

I haven't see such on ALE, but elsewhere yes.  Been going on for about
10 days.  Highest day was last Friday with just over 4500.  I haven't
figured out the motive as the sender names are jumbled garbage that only
a poorly configured final destination server would allow in.  I guess
somebody could be doing that to test for some next-gen attack, but I'm
not loosing sleep over it so far. ;-)

-Jim P.

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 14:38 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> Am I just special, or is there a general increase in worm like looking 
> emails masquading(sp?) as mail bounce messages this weekend? 
> 
> If I'm just special, what should I be doing besides deleting the messages?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
>