New evil spammer trick?

[Randall]

Return-Path: <Homer.Burke@212.com>
Delivered-To: me@mydomain.com
Received: (fqmail 24513 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 15:48:22 -0000
Received: from mx09.futurequest.net (mx09.futurequest.net [69.5.6.181])
by pt01.futurequest.net ([69.5.6.170])
with FQDP via TCP; 26 Apr 2005 15:48:22 -0000
Received: (qmail 4800 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 15:48:22 -0000
Received: from spc1-cosh4-3-0-cust197.cosh.broadband.ntl.com (spc1-cosh4-3-0-cust197.cosh.broadband.ntl.com [80.0.105.197])
by mx09.futurequest.net ([69.5.6.181])
with SMTP via TCP; 26 Apr 2005 15:48:18 -0000
Delivery-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:48:12 +0100
Return-Path: <owner-geda-useHomer.Burke@212.com>
Delivered-To: Homer.Burke@212.com
Received: by saturnalia (Wostfix)
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:46:12 -0400
From: "Kay West" <Homer.Burke@212.com>
Message-ID: <085.158@calle05.net>
To: me@mydomain.com
Subject: Re: Account # 7863741O

Notice how there are two Return-Path lines and a Delivered-To that isn't even part of my domain?

Are they faking the first set of headers to throw off spam checkers, or is this some sort of redirect (again, to throw off spam checkers)?

Randall

[sheila]

I have seen emails with two "Return-Path" headers before. A case where that might occur could be if the email was accepted at a POP email address, and then later the owner of the POP email address that originally received the email then forwarded it on to another address. There might already be one Return-path header as a result of the first receipt, and then forwarding it could cause another one to be added, depending on how the mail systems involved handle the email.

However, the example you show just looks plain bogus to me. I guess the spammers are up to new tricks.

[Randall]

God help anyone who admits to being a spammer when I've got a baseball bat in my hands. Or a highly annoyed weasel.

Randall

[cindik]

I think the appropriate punsihment for being a spammer is to hand write a personal apology note for each spam sent - not just per message sent to multiple destinations, but per message per destination. (No, they don't all get sent to the people who were spammed - that would add insult to injury.) When all the notes are written and signed, the spammer can leave prison.

[Randall]

When all the notes are written and signed, the spammer can leave prison.

Woo-hoo! I think you're onto something there. Even if it's just writing "I will not send licensed 0EM \/1AAGRAA sp~am to my s1ster in p4in ~~~ elegant hamburger marmoset" 50 million times on the blackboard, I'd be pretty satisfied.

And after they get out of prison, then I'll hit them with the baseball bat.

Randall