Hidden dangers of bouncing spam

[Mike Zanker]

On 14 February 2004 15:33 +0000 Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> I have heard dozens of
> stories from people saying they were included somewhere in the mail
> headers
> of a message they reported to spamcop, and spamcop listed them
> instead of
> the spammer! :-(

Yup, happens all the time. One of our users reported some spam they had
received and SpamCop sent a notification to me (as RIPE technical
contact) asking me to confirm that our user's account had been
cancelled!

Mike.