<![CDATA[When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will:]]>When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will:

- set up a forwarding email address on one of their servers with good DKIM/SPF/DMARC, typically on a domain that will expire soon
- Run a script that spams hundreds of support addresses/web forms with nonsense content using that forwarding address
- Forward all the confirmation receipts to your email address

That stuff is easy to block, but can be quite a nuisance to the affected support teams.

@homelab

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5e4ae2ad-0faa-4b38-a859-224c85bf4b84/when-spammers-don-t-like-you-reporting-their-spam-they-willRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 10:33:27 GMTFri, 20 Mar 2026 17:00:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:33:29 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @homelab Free E-Mail alias 🙂 Some people pay money for that 😂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116262935540365892https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116262935540365892Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:33:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:21:34 GMT]]>@jwildeboer @homelab That is sad indeed. One email address per service might be good to avoid the problem and just shut that one down but... scary to organise , right?
Why can one not set up email with a key system so if sender does not have the public key it goes into spam?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/adingbatponder/statuses/116262888706792617https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/adingbatponder/statuses/116262888706792617Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:21:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:12:39 GMT]]>@jwildeboer Google Account as in Gmail? I'm getting lots of spam forwarded through Google Groups (maybe I should just start filtering that).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/julian/statuses/116262853646159180https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/julian/statuses/116262853646159180Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:12:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:56:08 GMT]]>@julian But I also wanted to document in the open how these support ticket spams work. Regardless of the why. The forwarding address is in all cases a google account, so it comes in via google mail servers. I report these domains to google and that's all I can do. The spammers know that Google typically doesn't care, especially when the domains used expire in a few days/a week.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262788673106796https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262788673106796Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:56:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:54:09 GMT]]>@julian I tracked deep enough to make the connections between reports I made, the sending domains of that spam, the domains used for these support tickets etc. I am 90+% confident it is more causation than correlation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262780867774210https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262780867774210Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:54:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:51:26 GMT]]>@jwildeboer It's probably not related to you reporting them. Most often I'm too lazy to do that and I still get the same kind of spam recently.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/julian/statuses/116262770204048145https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/julian/statuses/116262770204048145Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:51:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:22:02 GMT]]>@jwildeboer

ooooooh, so that's what's happening with one of my email addresses!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/bbbhltz/statuses/116262654632594358https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/bbbhltz/statuses/116262654632594358Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:22:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:18:46 GMT]]>So I guess for the next few days you can send an e-mail to infgfgfg9964fgtttggg@teamkurofune.com and it will reach me 😉

@homelab

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262641757231744https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262641757231744Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:18:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to When spammers don't like you reporting their spam, they will: on Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:02:45 GMT]]>I guess they will also use the support forms to try to subscribe me to whatever marketing stuff from there.

So I look forward to interesting messages from Bavarian restaurants, Austrian doctors and swiss lawyers 🙂

@homelab

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262578750671498https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116262578750671498Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:02:45 GMT