[ale] New form of spam or phising?

[Scott Castaline]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Tue 2008-06-10 10:26:33 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>   
>> Just received an email with subject of failure notice from 
>> MAILER-DAEMON at kidsi.net. It appeared that I had sent an email to an 
>> unknown recipient and it was being returned. I tried kidsi.net on my 
>> browser (FF3.0b) and it appears to be an Asian based site and 
>> immediately a large message box popped up making some statement about 
>> sharing Fedora 9. I cancelled of course, but to be honest I'm not sure 
>> what just happened. Any ideas?
>>     
>
> This is most likely backscatter (possibly from a phishing attempt),
> but probably not a direct phishing attempt itself:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29
>
>  --dkg
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Is there a way to trace this back to the actual sender that "stole" my 
email address? I don't know if there is actually anything that I can do 
to stop him or her, but I feel I probably shoot myself in the foot 
enough I don't need any outside help.