Under Attack!!!

Ignore these pricks. Most of them can't perform an effective DDOS.
Anyway, contact your hosting provider and make they aware of the situation.

This is an extortion scam of a pretty high order. DO NOT respond to them in any way- no email back, nothing. They have nothing there to hurt you IMO..its all a cyber mafia type extortion trying to get you scared. It's all just an extortion version of a Nigerian scam. DONT FALL FOR IT!!

http://www.419legal.org/blog/2009/04/16/online-extortion-scams-the-fear-factor/

If you do (or God forbid send them any money) the extortion will never end and your name will get passed around to other scammer extortionists who will see you as "prime sucker meat."

So, ignore it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Report to yahoo, also find out the IP in the mail headers and report to their ISP.

Thanks People. Not sure how to obtain I.P. from headers.

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Done. Hopefully the emails stop shortly. Thanks again.

Just got flooded with these. They may not be able to DDOS but they are able to put the "Prodigious" in SPAM.

To check for IP make sure you are viewing full headers for the email.

I've been getting hundreds (literally) of these today too. Luckily, they don't really know who I am. They are using the default email addresses used by the private whois service. Nevertheless, this is time consuming. I reported them to Yahoo and the Whois service. I wonder if this is going to help at all.

These guys are good. I am getting hit too. They are using random IP addresses. It is averaging 4 emails per minute. Don't know how to stop them, other than finding the source, spam blockers don't work because of unique IP addresses !!! Any thoughts ?

Here is a sample of one of the email headers :

Return-path: <[email protected]>
Envelope-to: <**** My email ***>>>
Delivery-date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:57:35 -0400
Received: from s374.xrea.com ([125.53.24.142]:58856)
by host.my-host.com with smtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1OiZPZ-00036S-6V
for <**** My email ***>>>; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:57:34 -0400
Received: (qmail 8817 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Aug 2010 05:54:21 +0900
Date: 10 Aug 2010 05:54:21 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected]
To: <**** My email ***>>>
Subject:
X-Pidtime: 2664 20100810055421
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8
X-Spam-Score: -7
X-Spam-Bar: /
X-Spam-Flag: NO

Are you using privacy protection? If you are, remove it and then add it again (thus generating a new email address). As soon as I did this, the email address that they had for me became invalid and the emails stopped immediately. If you are not using privacy, set up a email filter that blocks a phrase from the subject or body. Blocking this phrase, "huge network of Distributed Denial Of Service Attack," should stop this particular email.

It really pisses me off when people like this spam. At least, if you are going to spam have the decency to be literate in your email.

That's really funny.

I have this problem too. I made a filter in my email client to delete all emails that has no subject.

ecigs.net

Thats a very good temporary solution..
Going to setup a filter for now.. At least my inbox will be cleared then.. Rep added.

Anybody heard of scam baiting? That'd be fun :D

rlopes said:

Anybody heard of scam baiting? That'd be fun :D

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Except.. These are hackers.. Using hackede Email accounts to send their spam.. You should not let them know that there is an active domainer under your email..

In short.. Do not bait them.. Do not taunt them.. Do not contact them at all..