Re: Creating False Email Address-Spam
From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 02/03/04
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:47:12 -0800
Yes, that method will work in OE as well as in Entourage.
-- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be ignored. > From: Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word > Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:47:06 -0800 > Subject: Re: Creating False Email Address-Spam > > Paul Berkowitz suggests this method (for Entourage, but OE should be the > same): > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To avoid spam directed at contributors of newsgroups, set up a send-only > dummy (spoof) email account. > > You do that in Tools/Accounts/Mail/New. Make it a POP account (even if you > use an IMAP account normally) and click to Configure manually. Enter your > real name and a fake email address. Leave all the settings for "Receiving > server" blank. Enter a real SMTP server from one of your real mail accounts > (POP or IMAP or even Hotmail) in "". If your SMTP server requires > authentication, click Advanced sending options and fill in your password. > Click OK, and don't mind the warning that says you won't be able to receive > mail. > > Then go into News accounts/Microsoft News Server, and set the email account > to the spoof account you just created. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > As for allowing legit newsgroup posters to email you directly, I would > recommend putting your real email address (masked with NO SPAM or, better, > something less obvious to a machine) in your signature. > > -- > Beth Rosengard > Mac MVP > > Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm> > Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> > > > On 2/2/04 12:27 PM, in article > BC441BB2.1C0C2%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com, "Dayo Mitchell" > <dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com> wrote: > >> I do mean your phoney--the dropdown I referred to tells Outlook to send all >> messages to the NGs from the chosen address. You can pick any address that >> you have set up in Outlook. >> >> The newsgroup shouldn't care if an address exists or not, so just try >> posting with it. It's better, by the way, to have the fake bit after the @, >> so that spam doesn't even make it to your server to get bounced there. >> >> The spam will decline over time, so your address might not be a complete >> lost cause. My old hotmail one is just about usable again. >> >> Dayo >> >> "Rafael Montserrat" wrote: >> >>> Dayo >>> >>> Yes, Dayo. I got nailed and started getting spam right away, so I'm going to >>> have to change my primary email address, the one I sent to the newsgroup. >>> Bummer. >>> >>> When you say in your reply below, "...where you can set the email address >>> you use to post," you mean my phoney email address, right? >>> >>> Will <microsoft.public.mac.office.word> be able to receive it. >>> >>> When I sent myself emails with the phoney address, it either doesn't come >>> through at all, or I get an error message. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Rafael >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> in article BC43EE63.1B645%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com, Dayo Mitchell >>> at dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com wrote on 2/2/04 9:09 AM: >>> >>>> I believe, that if you go to Tools | Accounts, News tab, then open up the >>>> MS >>>> News Server account, there will be a drop-down menu where you can set the >>>> email address you use to post, under Account Settings, Personal >>>> Information. >>>> Assuming your phoney address is something like yours with an INVALID or >>>> NOSPAM stuck in the middle, we should all be able to figure out the real >>>> address. >>>> >>>> Perhaps you should have posted this question through the web (google or the >>>> MS site)? To avoid possibility of spam? >>>> >>>> Dayo >>>> >>>> "Rafael Montserrat" wrote: >>>> >>>>> When I started on this discussion group a while back I began receiving >>>>> over 100 pieces of spam a day. I learned from Beth that spammers harvest >>>>> valid email addresses for sending spam. >>>>> I have now created a phoney email address in Outlook Express 5. My >>>>> question is: how do I set this up with the discussion group so that the >>>>> fake >>>>> address thwarts spam, and at the same time my valid address is available >>>>> to >>>>> users of the newsgroup. >>>>> I noticed when I was using the newsgroup, that there were two options: >>>>> do everything directly on outlook express, which is preferable, and/or >>>>> have >>>>> access to a person's personal email address. >>>>> With this post, I have to send it using my primary email address. I >>>>> don't see how else to do it and I hope I don't get into the same spam >>>>> problem as before. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Rafael >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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