[PLUG] Friend's email has modified reply-to field

[Denis Heidtmann]

I agree about gmail's spam detection.  The issue here is that when  my
friend sends an email some of her recipients may just "reply", which sends
the reply to the spammer's address.  I have no idea how the spammer managed
to change her reply-to field, but I have been trying to get that address
shut down.  Then the unwary repliers will get a bounce message rather than
starting an exchange with a crook.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Spam coming into my gmail address has increased in the past few weeks from
> 5-8 per day to over 100 per day. Gmail's spam detection has been pretty
> good about routing it all to my spam folder.
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 08:44 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >
> > > I have sent some stuff to network-abuse at google.com, but it is not a
> > > typical situation. The hacker sent to my friend's contact list a
> request
> > > to wire $. The return address was changed to hellerwalker53 at gmail
> dot
> > > com. The hacker also changed my friend's reply-to field to that same
> > > address. So for some time (maybe even now) that email address was
> > > functional. Since that email is a .gmail address I want google to shut
> it
> > > down. Maybe my message to them will work; maybe not.
> >
> > Denis,
> >
> >    How unfortunate.
> >
> > > I may try to send something to the address to see if it bounces. If
> not,
> > > is there some service which will fill his inbox?
> >
> >    I don't use gmail yet I wonder if there's a way for gmail users to
> > filter
> > spam at their end. If so, adding that address to a local filter would
> allow
> > it to be rejected or just discarded.
> >
> >    Over the past couple of weeks the amount of spam headed my way has
> > picked
> > up considerably. Perhaps that's because summer vacation for spammers is
> > over. And much of that spam comes from a google IP address.
> >
> >    I wonder if the percentage of e-mail traffic that's spam or malware is
> > still about the 80% reported a few years ago.
> >
> >    Good luck resolving this annoying issue.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rich
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