Email campaign

[Alex Neuman]

Mail comes from a server called "mailscanner.salsalabs.net". Probably a misconfiguration being abused.

On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Brad Beckenhauer wrote:

> Just sharing an issue we had this week with everyone else on the MailScanner forum.
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> This week, I've been working with an organization that is running an email campaign that is bombarding us with undesirable content and I figured I'd share with the rest of you as it's likely some of your systems are also getting this "junk".
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> If you browse to the web link below you will find a campaign concerning 'circumcision'.  The concept they use is simple, you read the text and if you concur with the statement, you sign the petition.
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> In the background, the website takes your contact information, extracts your email address and then sends an email to a mass distribution list using your email address as the sender.  The email is part of an email campaign that is using an online company to send the email enmass.
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> The email has no opt-out and if you reply to the email, your email is sent to the unwitting soul (person) who signed the online statement.
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> The subject lines are always one of the two lines below:
>    Subject: It's time to end infant circumcision!
>    Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?It's_time_to_end_=E2=80=9Croutine=E2=80=9D_infant_circumcision!?=
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> You can take a look at the alert that generates these messages here:
> http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5922/t/6483/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2543
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> Just sharing this information in case you want to do something to protect your clients as well.
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> thanks
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