Stopping Spam from VoteNader.org
Brian Edwards
You may have received spam email recently that appears to come from our
campaign, or be about our campaign -- perhaps the "From" and or
"Reply-to" addresses look like they are coming from VoteNader.org. Or
perhaps you have received a message that appears to come from an
individual (if the address is real, the real owner probably did not send
this email either) with suppressed recipients. Or maybe you received an
email that appeared to come from yourself promoting our site.
These messages are NOT from Nader for President 2004, and these email
tactics are NOT condoned by our campaign in any way.
UPDATE: Some of the latest forged emails have been made to appear to be
coming from naderexplore04.org. Again, we are not responsible for this
unfortunate abuse of email, and there is little in the technical sense
that we can do to prevent this as it has nothing to do with our actual
infrastructure. We are collecting information.
NOTE: The emails with malicious code (viruses, worms, etc.) often have
attachments. Our campaign will NEVER send attachments in our
announcement emails to you. Please be sure that you have anti-virus
software and have the latest updates available for your anti-virus
software.
Our hosting service has alerted us to say that Nader for President 2004
appears to be the target of what is called a "Joe Job." Such an event is
where a spammer forges email to make it appear to have come from some
other domain (such as ours -- or yourself). This is hard to prevent on
our end and part of the insecure nature of the email protocol in
general.
Members of our actual email list must request to receive email from us
(either through Ralph's signup sheets or subscribing during our
exploratory phase, or now on our campaign site). When one signs up for
email they must reply to a confirmation message before they receive our
list announcements.
Our public announcement emails come from "camp...@votenader.org,"
contain a "Paid for by Nader for President 2004" statement at the
bottom, and have "upd...@lists.votenader.org" in the "To:" header.
Unfortunately, some of these indicators can be forged as well.
Most of the Spam that we have received complaints about appear to be
forged from email addresses not associated with votenader.org (often
forged to appear to be coming from government email addresses), and have
our website code embedded in the body of the email with hidden tags that
contain random words that work to subvert anti-spam software.
If you are on our lists, you can ALWAYS unsubscribe at ANY time by
following the instructions included at the end of our announcements. You
can also use our unsubscribe page using the email address you signed up
with.
If you are receiving this SPAM, we extend our apologies.
We will pursue the spammers to the full extent of the law.
For more information, please review these resources:
How Do I Determine the Source of an Email?
http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/emailsource.php4
Why Does This Spam Look Like I Sent It?
http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/spamfrom.php4
Coping with a Joe Job
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sabotage-coping-joe-job/2
Please contact ab...@votenader.org with any questions. We have received
many samples of the spam and are working to identify the source, if
possible.
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events for now :)
The fourth day, a day or two before the operation I woke up and told him
a few things he did not know, I though all this was just a dream, I also
told him not to tell anyone about it, because it is a top secret (at
that time). During the operation I lost heart beat, I remember doctors
saying his pulse rate is decreasing and panicking about it. By the way
when I was being taken to operation theatre, another doctor came who
wanted to kill me, he kept telling them just kill him who will know, he
killed two men he is a killer etc etc, the surgeon who was in charge
told him "look I don?t know if he is a killer or not but it is my duty
to save human life, and today you (the guy who was telling others to
kill me) will not be operating in this room". The surgen should know,
good men like you are the one who make the real difference in this
world, one must never underestimate the value and importance of his/her
actions, I wish and pray to God that God gives you and all of us faith
and ability to obey him properly.
Me and my dreams :)
The rest of operation went well, but even after operation I lost heart
beat once more when I was in hospital, after waking up to find out my
body had these big cuts all over it, chest, stomach etc etc. I had
another dream at that time :), it was like this some "angels" bring me
to this room, to watch an interactive dream/reality. I sit on this old
chair and there are a lot of people dressed in blue who were actually
sleep and watching this dream. This metallic, needle like thing goes
inside my skull and then I end up here in this worl