New SPAM DOS

Fri Jan 8 19:41:07 UTC 2010

I too have been receiving these to my spamtrap domain...  again any ideas to combat this would be helpful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Ronan [mailto:sronan at fattoc.com]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:34 PM
To: Owen DeLong
Cc: Nanog list
Subject: Re: New SPAM DOS

I recently started receiving these as well for my domain.

Would appreciate anyone's input on what the deal is.

On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

> At least this is new for me...
>
> I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any
> outlook or owa services.  For some reason, someone decided to try and
> send this message out to various internet recipients:
>
>> Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
>>
>> We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the
>> mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to
>> apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
>>
>> http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from=
>> scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
>>
>> Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
>
> An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my
> server is a spamvertised web site.
>
> Anyone seen this before?  Any good techniques for combatting it?
>
> Owen
>