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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when we get there
you will just open the door and find him in there, then you will call me
using your mobile and I will _pretend_ to come to tip to help you. So
the ASIO guy opened the truck and pretended he found me and called
Selgin for help, I don?t know why they did this, but Selgin told him
about those two guys who died etc etc, then he placed me on grass, it
was really smelly. And they started to leave, the ASIO guy asked him
that is it, you are not going to call Ambulance or cops, Selgin said,
"he(I Mohsin) said that God will help him, I want to see how God helps
him)", he left, I prayed to God once again for help, he returned. They
made this plan, they will simply place me back in truck again, move to a
bit different area, close to grass and they will call the ambulance an
cops, by pretending they accidentally found me, as Selgin was getting
lift from the other guy. Selgin tried various first aid techniques to
make me breath again, I was not breathing and heart rate was falling.
They called a ambulance a few times, I guess they knew but they did not
really want to come, my heart stopped, Selgin came to check again, he
noticed I was not breathing, he though that I was possibly dead, he
tried a few first aid techniques but it was getting a bit late, I was
feeling pain in my blood vessels. I had a few dreams during this period
once again, like it is early morning time and seven stars are shinning
in the sky, the sky is clear. 10 minutes after the heart beat stopped
the ambulance came, they took me out placed me on grass and started a
few first aid methods, then they placed me on some bed and started
trying that electric device to start the heart beat, initially it did
not work. I prayed to God for help once again, God please I know I am
alive don?t make them stop all, the nurse had failed and he was
disappointed, he said okay let us try one more time, he tried again and
failed