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Ask HN: Spam Emails Attributed to Microsoft

3 points by memcg ↗ HN
For about the past six months, I have received more than 100 spam messages that Spamcop attributes to Microsoft IP addresses and reports to abuse@messaging.microsoft.com, junk@office365.microsoft.com and spamloop@frontbridge.com

The spam sender adds a template to an old, legitimate email message which includes two links to images and two links that redirect to sites such as http://emailtrust.xyz, https://impalos.com, https://www.seedleafitem.com and https://yuzuapples.com.

When I analyze the headers at https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/analyzeheader, they often show a delay of hundreds of days from a Microsoft IP to my Verizon.net/AOL/Yahoo server.

So I'm asking is Microsoft at fault? How are the spammers able to do this? Can it be prevented?

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andreynering
Funny thing, just opened another topic about SPAM before I noticed this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835519
memcg
I read your post. Most, 90% or more, of the spam in my Verizon/AOL/Yahoo Spam folder is from gmail servers per Spamcop, but Spamcop sends the reports to google-abuse-bounces-reports@devnull.spamcop.net, which I guess means Google does not want to see the reports. I forward the emails to abuse@google.com because it makes me feel better:)