Joe Job<\/a>– that is to say it is being used as the fake ‘reply to’ email address by spammers. So today my Inbox has been deluged in bounced ads for mickey pills (I’m guessing) in Cyrillic. Many of them include a telephone number.<\/p>\nIn recent hours my enterprising Eastern Alter Ego has branched out into selling Maddona Albums and Replica Bulgari watches. I would like to say the following to anyone who has received one of these messages.<\/p>\n
People of Russia. I am your friend. <\/strong>I have no Mickey Pills, fake watches or Aging 80s popstrels to sell you, nor would I try to do so if I had.<\/p>\nI have contacted Blacknight, who look after my mail server and they have set me on the path to health again as follows<\/p>\n
Unfortunately there is little we can do about this. Your email account is safe, i.e. nobody logged into your account to create this mail. The headers of the email have been modified to make it appear the mail came from you.<\/p>\n
The only impact we can have on this is to add an SPF record to this domain. This would list all the mail servers that are valid for mail from your domain to come from. If the mail comes from any other mail server, it would be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hopefully this will allow things to return to normal. In the meantime, please do not point your missiles at tuppenceworth.<\/p>\n
PS Is it mad to think that this might be related to the vanishing Paper Round wiki?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around midnight last night I started to recieve a series of bounced Mail Undelivered messages from lots and lot of email addresses in Russia. This was odd, because I didn’t email anyone in Russia. It turns out that my main email address smcgarr{AT}tuppenceworth DOT ie has been the victim of a Joe Job– that is to say it is being used as the fake ‘reply to’ email address by spammers. So today my Inbox has been deluged in bounced ads for mickey pills (I’m guessing) in Cyrillic. Many of them include a telephone number. In recent hours my enterprising Eastern Alter Ego has branched out into selling Maddona Albums and Replica Bulgari watches. I would like to say the following to anyone who has received one of these messages. People of Russia. I am your friend. I have no Mickey Pills, fake watches or Aging 80s popstrels to sell you, nor would I try to do so if I had. I have contacted Blacknight, who look after my mail server and they have set me on the path to health again as follows Unfortunately there is little we can do about this. Your email account is safe, i.e. nobody logged into your account to create this mail. The headers of the email have been modified to make it appear the mail came from you. The only impact we can have on this is to add an SPF record to this domain. This would list all the mail servers that are valid for mail from your domain to come from. If the mail comes from any other mail server, it would be rejected. Hopefully this will allow things to return to normal. In the meantime, please do not point your missiles at tuppenceworth. PS Is it mad to think that this might be related to the vanishing Paper Round wiki?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[334,517,515,516],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-paperround","tag-russia","tag-spam","tag-woe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}