Are you receiving spam from diffenbach.org?


Any spam that appears to be coming from diffenbach.org is the result of forged of email headers, giving the appearance that email is coming from this domain when in fact it's being sent from computers and accounts which diffenbach.org has no control over or association with.


This sort of forgery is called a "joe job".

I know about the forged emails because I'm not only getting "normal" spam, but also automated replies to all the forged email as well.

This shows me the forgeries allege to be from diffenbach.org addresses that simply don't exist.

To learn more about "Joe Jobs", see http://members.cox.net/joejob


No one associated with diffenbach.org is sending this spam, and no one here can stop this spam from being sent.


An example: this is the header on one of the forged emails:

Received: from canada-smtp1.consulting.fujitsu.com ([198.168.250.2])
          by Montreal-NS002 (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11)
          with ESMTP id 2004092708593753:19134 ;
          Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:59:37 -0400 
Received: from dfds.de ([218.166.44.72])
          by canada-smtp1.consulting.fujitsu.com (Lotus Domino Release 6.0.3)
          with SMTP id 2004092709060246-38938 ;
          Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:06:02 -0400 
From: "Owen Quintero" [diffenbach.org address elided so spambots don't see it]
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:55:32 +0000
Message-ID: 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?QnV5IFYhaWFncmEgT25saW5lIE92ZXJuaWdodCBXaXRob3V0IEEgUHJlXnNjcmlwdGlvbg==?=
To: [victim's email address elided so spambots don't see it]
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html
Note that the email was sent from dfds.de ([218.166.44.72]) (a German domain) to canada-smtp1.consulting.fujitsu.com ([198.168.250.2]) (a .com domain), which shouldn't have accepted it at all, and which sent it on to the victim of the spam, whose mis-configured mail server looked at the forged return address rather than the un-forged mail path, and then bounced it to me.