Information in email headers are used by many email server
to black list or block an email domain, combined with text or
sentence string in message body and subject line. 

Can bulk or mass email marketers overcome
the problem of mail server
Port 25 blocking or
mail servers spam filters by using faked or forged email
headers, IP's or email domain with no MX Records?

 

No, they can't....they can only do the followings...
  • Email spoofing (hijack someone email)
  • Use throw-away email domain (with fake, forged or stolen id)
  • Use throw-away free email address (with fake or stolen id)
  • Use throw-away ISP access account (with forged or stolen id)
  • Hijack someone mail server
  • Hijack someone PCs by installing Spam Zombies
  • Open relay many mail servers around the world requires
    no identification of the original machine IP address.
  • Using a filter-evading script that randomizes subject lines,
    source addresses and entire domain to
    avoid or harder to
    be identified as bulk emails
  • Using programs that automatically randomized different internet access account and then quickly log out
"Buffalo Spammer" Arrested
Howard Carmack, the notorious "Buffalo Spammer" accused of sending more than 825 million unsolicited emails from illegal EarthLink accounts, has been arrested and arraigned in New York on four felony and two misdemeanor counts.

Every single Internet email message has:

1. An origin (the machine that sent it)
2. Relay (the machine for relaying it to another machine)
3. Final destination (the machine that receive it)
4. IP address
5. Domain name

1. Origin, is the machine used
to send the email message, even if it is a stand alone desktop
PCs mail server -- See: 4. IP address

2. Relay, all email messages must be relayed
to get to its final destination (the mail server or almost every computer connected to the Internet can act as a relay). And email programs have a setting for "relay host" or SMTP that allows a computer to acts as a relay.

 
 
 

 


3.
Destination, is the recipient of your message.
 Every email message contains a body--the actual message and a header--visible, only if the recipient chooses to view it. Message headers contain all of the information about the route that takes place when the email travels from the origin to the relay to the destination, including the origin of the country that that particular IP address “block” of that country that if belongs to. Notes: Usually entire block of IP addresses are assigned to each different county.

4. IP address, every computer connected to the Internet
is represented by an IP address and a domain name. An IP address is a numeric code (ie. 205.199.212.30) that uniquely identifies a computer on the Internet which can be traced to the owner of that particular machine being used to dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL, ADSL, etc. to access the Internet as well as the country that it came from.

5. Domain name, is a name that corresponds
with an IP address and can be easily traced to the real owner using
nslookup--a DNS whois tool that perform forward/reverse DNS queries for a domain address and getting an IP address of a hostname and hostname of the IP address.

Summary

Every email message header contains the IP address and domain of the computer from where the message originated, the IP address and domain of the computer that relay the message, and the IP address and domain of the final destination.

The information in an email header is used by many anti-spam filters to blacklist an email domain or the entire block of it, in combination with specific text, sentence string in the message, subject line, etc. See: http://www.spamhaus.org

Spamhaus, bulk or mass mailers that uses software to randomized the message *Subject header, *IP address, *Email domain, *From, *Reply To:, etc. Whatever is done to fake or forged, won't work because their entire block of IP addresses are blacklisted.

As spam filters gets more and more effective by using a cocktail of methods from; blacklisting, content or behavioral analysis--such as large numbers of blind copies (BCC), address validation nslookup--for senders trying to cloak their identity to heuristics and digital algorithms identifying common spam patterns and scanning for pornography graphics skin tones...

Spammers are resorting to: Email spoofing - Hijacking - Spam Zombies - Open relay - using fake, forged or stolen id to set-up throw-away internet access account, etc.

EarthLink VP of law and public policy Dave Baker said in a statement; "Howard Carmack's arrest demonstrates that spamming has both civil and criminal consequences. Simply put, spammers who brazenly disregard the law will wind up in jail." See; "Buffalo Spammer" Arrested

Howard Carmack, the notorious "Buffalo Spammer" accused of sending more than 825 million unsolicited e-mails from illegal EarthLink accounts, has been arrested and arraigned in New York on four felony and two misdemeanor counts.

 


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