Bogus email address

Is there a way to find out if a particular email address (eg. [email protected]) doesn't exisit without sending an actual email message to that particular address. (through java mail api's)

If you are sending an email to an internal network, you might be able to resolve the SMTP address via LDAP.
This will not solve you issue if there was a problem in EMAIL routing (i.e. mail server down, bad SMTP address from LDAP, etc.)
What I had to do for my application was write a program using JavaMail to read the INBOX, looking for returned messages. This is something you will have to experiment with becuse the layout of the returned messaeg may be in several different formats :-(
In almost every case that I have found, you can parse out the email address causing the failure, the subject, and (in many cases) the original message causing the failure.
Needless to say, this is a very heavy "text-processing" task.
Good luck. If you do find a way to resolve email addresses, post your findings to this group!!!
Regards,
William Fink
william.fink(AT)charter.net

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550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [probably bogus Email address]

Hello,
My Exchange Server has been reporting numerous instances of the following message (or very similar messages) most days for a couple of weeks or so now:
This is an SMTP protocol log for virtual server ID 1, connection #3. The client at "118.161.64.59" sent a "rcpt" command, and the SMTP server responded with "550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [email protected] ". The
full command sent was "rcpt TO: <[email protected]>". This will probably cause the connection to fail. For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect .asp
The Email address is unknown, and probably bogus.
What really concerns me is that the messages from yesterday (Sunday!) contained a now defunct Email account from someone who used to work in our London head office, but left about a couple of years ago. To me, this implies that there has been unauthorised
access to the company IT infrastructure - possibly at both sites - and that someone is trying to get our Exchange Server to relay unsolicited / mailicious Emails. The above message suggests that the attempted relaying has not been successful to date, and I
can't find anything out of the ordinary in the SMTP queues or the Exchange logs - but the persistence does concern me.
So, am I reading this correctly? If so, what can I do about it? Or if not, what does it really mean?
Thankyou very much for your help.
Kind regards,
Keith

If your Exchange server is accessible from the Internet, as it would be to allow you to receive SMTP mail unless you have a relay server like an Exchange Edge server, then Spammers will attempt to use it to relay. Your server is correctly rejecting
that, so I don't see a problem. If you're worried about this, then you could contract with a third-party cloud-based message hygiene service like Exchange Online Protection, and the restrict the IP address that can talk to your Exchange server to those
of the hygiene service.
Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Remove Bogus Email Addresses from Address-Completion Cache?

Clearly Apple's Email program retains a small cache of Email addresses for address-completion purposes as you type in addresses on the To or Cc lines.
Is there a way to remove bogus addresses from that cache?
A few folks have long since moved to different addresses, and it keeps popping up their ancient addresses...

From your Mail menu choose Window > Previous Recipients, delete whatever you like.
-mj

Sender email address verification

During my recent DNS server outage (caused by XO DSL suddenly turning on filtering of port 53), I noticed something quite interesting with .Mac server and I am wondering if there is a way for Tiger server users to EASILY implement the same feature to reduce the inflow of spam?
When my DNS stopped, my .Mac account STOPPED accepting email from my work account, essentially saying there was no such account on my work server.
I obviously do understand that the fact that my DNS was not working and my server could not be verified was the reason for this, but it got me thinking....
Is there any easy way to put this sort of incoming email verification process on my OWN Tiger server (work)? i.e. Only accept delivery of incoming email AFTER you verify that the sender email address DOES correspond to a valid email account on the senders host?? - which means no bogus email address or hostnames accepted...
I think this would help cut down on a lot of Spam as these guys often send junkmail via bogus accounts/host names that cannot be replied to.
Any useful information regarding setting this up would be most appreciated
Thanks in advance - Rohin

My question is ... wouldn't it make sense to check whether sender emails are valid before accepting email server connections.
There's not really any way of doing that, besides, that's not really what you want.
What you want is to ensure that the email comes from the person that it says it comes from. What you'd get is that the email says it comes from a valid email address. This is not the same thing.
Even now, 99% of spam emails are sent from valid email addresses - it's trivial to put any email address in the 'from' header.
Knowing that the From address is valid doesn't actually do anything to say that the person in the From header is the one who actually sent the message in the first place.
There are several industry-wide attempts and performing validation at the domain level, which is about as good as it's going to get in the near term. For more information check out Sender Policy Framework which defines (via DNS) which IP addresses are permitted to send email for a particular domain, and DomainKeys which uses digital signatures to validate the email.
Since both models require input from the domain owners, they won't be 100% reliable until all domains opt-in to the schemes. For now it can help validate that an email is from a legitimate domain, but the absence of a SPF or DomainKey doesn't necessarily mean the message is spam.
The only way to verify that the email comes from a valid user is some kind of confirmation - an email comes into your mail system which doesn't recognize the sender, so it holds the mail and sends a message back to the sender saying 'who are you?" and "if this message is legitimate, follow this link to unblock the message". The message is forwarded only after the sender confirms their identity and that the message is legitimate.
This has all kinds of issues, though including latency (it takes longer for messages to get to you), delays (what if the sender sends the message right before they leave on a week's vacation?), and not least the complete lack of support for any kind of automated messages, list, etc. that are sent from non-humans.

Populating the email address (SMTP_ADDR) in Vendor Master using PRAA

Hi, experts!
We would like to start using transaction PRAA (program RPRAPA00) to create and update Vendor Master Data based on HR employee data. As part of this process, we would like to populate the "E-Mail" field with data from infotype 105. (We have a separate infotype 105 subtype that stores the email address in the USRID_LONG field.) I added the INFOTYPES: 0105 data declaration via an enhancement spot in RPRAPADE_ALV, so the GET PERNR brings in the appropriate p0105 data.... I just don't know how to push that into the appropriate field in the vendor master.
I am trying to find the structure within the RPRAPA00 program that contains the email address field SMTP_ADDR, but can't seem to find it. When a Vendor is created, it looks like this field gets stored in the ADR6 table, but I don't really understand how the ADDRNUMBER field in the ADR6 table gets linked back to the vendor number (LIFNR).
I looked at the BADI BADI_EXITS_RPRAPA00, but none of the defined Methods have an email address field.
How do I update the email address field in the vendor master using PRAA?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!
- Steve

Did you figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing.
see PRAA user exit to update vendor email address
A couple of things I found are:
- there are 2 email address on the vendor
- Comunication section - SZA1_D0100-SMTP_ADDR
- Correspondence section - BLFB1-INTAD
- apparently it is some kind of standard to use the correspondence section email address to send emails via F110
- you have access to BLFB1 in RPRAPAFO_ALV
- using the modification assistant I was able to populate BLFB1-INTAD
- like you I thought the vendor email address's were stored in ADR6 but I tried going in to XK02 and added a couple of bogus email address's to a vendor and then went into ADR6 looking for them. I could not find them. Correction - I took another look in ADR6 and I did see the test email address.
Buy reading some other threads they imply that this can be done via a user exit but like you I can't seem to be able to see how.
Jerry
Edited by: Jerry on Mar 12, 2011 12:48 AM
Edited by: Jerry on Mar 14, 2011 5:12 PM

Nephew used bogus email account(used valid credit card)

I am trying to help my Nephew to regain his previous purchases in iTunes.
When he received his iPod Touch last year, a friend helped him setup his account using a bogus email address. However, he did use a valid credit card and was able to purchase music, movies, tv shows and apps. Everything was working, he was able to sync his Touch without any issues. When he bought an iPhone and tried to sync/transfer his library, he kept receiving "incorrect password, please retry".
The issue is he needs a new iTunes account. But, he doesn't want to lose his purchases
All of the pruchases are still on his iPod Touch and Macbook Air.
Does anyone have any advice or a suggestion?
Thanks in advance!

edit: I should add that the bogus email account was used as his iTunes id.

Email Address Compromised

I have received "From: [email protected]
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details" in my mail box today. The sender of the undeliverable mail is using my email address with another name apearing before. "From: Jeremy <*my address*@mac.com>". This has happened three times this morning with three different names preceeding my address. How are hackers able to send an email using my address as the sending address via .Mac? Do I need to worry, or just delete an ignore the [email protected] messages.
Thanks. Brad.

Doubtful anyone has hacked your computer or email account.
Sounds like a spammer has hijacked your email address only using it to appear as the sending email address for bulk spam mailings.
For many email accounts, there is nothing preventing someone from entering any email address in the email address field for the account preferences to appear as the sending email address for a message. Spammers use bogus email addresses to appear as the sending email address for their garbage and sometimes hijack a valid email address.
In addition to my .Mac account, I also access a POP type account provided by my ISP with Mail. Going to Mail > Preferences > Accounts under the Account Information tab for the account preferences, I can enter your email address in the Email Address field for the account preferences which will appear as the sending email address for a message sent with this email account or I can enter your email address as the Reply To email address.
Unless an ISP or email account provider prevents entering a different email address in the Email Address field when sending a message with an account they provide, there is little you can do.
I had the same occur not long ago with an old Earthlink email account. I forwarded some of the bounced messages to Earthlink. The bounced messages should contain the sender's computer IP address.
I suggest contacting .Mac with this information but other than that, there isn't much you can do.

Comma in name causes bad email address formation

I tried to add several names in my address book in the form "Last, First" using the "Last" field of the address book. When I create a list composed of such names and refer to the list from Mail, the names are not quoted or escaped leaving the bare commas to fool the SMTP server into thinking I have bogus email addresses. I suppose I should stop doing this, but old (Military) habits die hard.
G4 Tower MDD 1.25 GHz 1.75GB Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I have no trouble with any of my other (several thousand) contacts in Address Book, only those with parseable punctuation, notably commas. I have many Military, Government and ex-high tech contacts that like this format and when I migrated from Solaris (phone company) to Mac I exported all my contacts which had been input using "Last, First<[email protected]>" into address book. The original quotes are gone but the problem remains. Adding quotes does not help. Maybe a goof up in the import method.
I suspect this can't be solved unless I change my ways or go back to using a LDIF compliant address book client like Mozilla under Darwin.

In Mac Mail on OS 10.5.8 I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not. How does this happen and how can I correct this problem

n Mac Mail on OS 10.5.8 I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not. How does this happen and how can I correct this problem

You said:
I am receiving bogus emails which claim to be sent by people in my address book, but actually are not.
...and:
Are you saying that my address book has not been hacked into? That others are getting these email addresses from another source?
This confuses me. Are you saying that you are receiving bogus e-mails from some of your contacts, or are you saying that they are receiving bogus e-mails from you?
If the latter, there are a number of reasons that people might be getting e-mail from you. Malware, though technically possible, is extremely unlikely. See Someone is sending messages from my e-mail address!
If the former, that's rather unusual. The only decent explanation I can think of is that a bunch of your Windows-using contacts got infected with something and their machines are being used to spam everyone in their contact lists, which would include you.

I have a virus on my iPad that sends out bogus emails to everyone in my contact list. I don't know where it came from (email, apps not from iTunes, etc) but it sits somewhere on my iPad. Does anyone know of a scanning app that will find and eliminate it?

I have a virus on my iPad that sends out bogus emails (no subj and an URL that goes nowhere) to everyone in my contact list. I don't know how it got on my machine (email, non-iTunes apps, etc.) Does any one know of a scanning app that can find this virus and eliminate it? I have an iPad version 3 (WIFI) with 6.0.2 IOS. This scanner should be capable of running on my iPhone as well -- just in case it made it to to my other IOS machine. Thanks for your help! Steve

The chances that it's a virus on your iPad or iPhone is very slim. Who is your mail provider? it's far more likely that your address has been spoofed and it's your mail service that has been compromised not your iDevice. I know my Yahoo mail was hacked and people in my address book received spam mails that I didn't send.
have you changed the address on your e-mail account?

Weird Bounce-back of an email address that is not even in my contacts!

Hey folks,
Recently I have been getting a bounced back email from an address that is not even in my contacts (I use outlook). It's only when I send an email to a particular person. She gets the email, but I get this bounce back from a SIMILAR email. It is annoying, and confounding.
I have scanned my laptop regularly with updated McAfee and Spybot, and have found nothing. I am using Vista Home and it is all updated as well.
Thanks!
Jim

If the message is being received and you are only sending to a single address on the sending line, then I would say the error is likely on the receiver's end (maybe they have a forward setup to the bogus address?). If you could include the full headers (email addresses redacted) of the message which is bouncing back, maybe someone here can spot something and suggest something further.

My main account on my iPad is based off an email address that no longer exists and can not be recreated. On top of that I forgot the password and answers to the security questions. So I can not reset the password. any suggestions?

I Now get constant pop ups to logon to iCloud but it wants a password that I forgot. I also forgot the security question answers. It can not email me a password reset because the email no longer exists and Verizon won't let me recreate it. I know this will sound crazy but when I created the original Apple account with the old email address I put in a bogus birthdate because I do not like giving out personal info.
i Just want to do something to stop the iCloud popups.

Try contacting Support in your country, after confirming your id and that it's your account they should be able to reset its password.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5699
If your country isn't on that page then try this form and explain and see what they reply with : https://ssl.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
When they've done that update the primary email address on the account to be an account that you have access to e.g. by tapping on it in Settings > iTunes & App Store and logging into it, via the Store > View Account menu option on your computer's iTunes, or via the 'manage your apple id' button on http://appleid.apple.com

Does anyone have an email address for someone who cares at Verizon Wireless?

I have had enough with Verizon Wireless and their lack of service and NO WAY to contact tech support. Which of you brave people will speak up and answer this question? Any way to get answers on ANYTHING to do with lack of phone service, no connection, weak signal/no signal, lack of coverage, etc. Why am I having to ask this question in a "community" forum? Why isn't there a link on this useless website for something other than spending money, buying new equipment, upping my contract? Should any company's customers have to use a forum and speak their mind or go to Facebook or Twitter for support. (Which by the way is just another forum and a pacifier.)
Would someone FROM Verizon Wireless with KNOWLEDGE and answers PLEASE contact me?
I've got an email ready for you. I sent it to the email address that
was shown on our VZaccess Manager but guess what? It's BOGUS!!!
Don't try support@verizonwireless either because that is bogus.
I've already complained to the FCC like thousands of other people.
Watch out or you will end up like Ma Bell did years ago.
BUSTED UP.
Feel free to contact me at (email address removed)
Don't bother trying to call me on my cell phone. BECAUSE
IT DOESN'T GET A SIGNAL WHERE I LIVE 3 MILES FROM
TOWN.
Private info removed as required by the Terms of Service.
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After doing some more research here are the people I am trying to contact in the executive branch:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/aboutus/leadership/executive.html
And now for the regional contact info:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/aboutus/leadership/area.html
Had to answer my own question. Thanks a lot customer service. Once again you have failed me.

Has anyone else received a phishing, "Urgent Alert From Apple Support"? It came to my actual iCloud email address.

The message is very clearly bogus, full of errors of every kind, right from the start: "Dear Apple Custumer,"
The fact that it came to my own iCloud address worries me since usually such schemes are to a broad group, like "[email protected]"
I have forwarded the email, with Long Headers, to the fraud-combating websites. Can't find any hint on apple.com/support as to where at Apple itself to direct it.

Re: Has anyone else received a phishing, "Urgent Alert From Apple Support"? It came to my actual iCloud email address.
YES today in the UK, the email text is as below, together with several Links to "Apple" sites and an Apple logo and European support address.
Fairly crude but could fool naive users.
Any one know how to get to the addresses behind the links without clicking them? Just copying and pasting as plain text doesn't seem to work. Any other way just copies the Hyperlink.
Scam Text in square brackets:
[This is the final notice to inform you as of 30 - January - 2015 that you have not yet updated your account information. Under "Know your Customer" legislation Apple Inc is required to perform a verification of your information, failure to do so will result in account termination in less than 48 hours.
To stop the termination of your Apple and iCloud please validate your account information before the deadline.
Please continue to Validate your Apple/iCloud ID »
Sincerely,
Apple Support]

Someone in Australia was using my email address and when I changed email names to reinstall Itunes it only gives me states from Australia. Is there some cache on my system that should be cleared or removed?

Someone in Australia was using my email address and when I changed email names to reinstall Itunes it only gives me states from Australia. Is there some cache on my system that should be cleared or removed?

Good luck. I have been trying to report to Apple Support about a Bogus Email I received today, which said I had made a purchase. Naturally, I was to cancel this bogus purchase by giving out personal details etc to them.
The real question is: how did they get my email as someone who had purchased from Itunes?. I cannot believe that ti si coincidence.
HAVE the Australian Apple IDs [where users have supplied their email addresses] been compromised?
My report about Spam was the same as reported in 2010, when the reply was: Apple knows all about this. What has been done about that spam from this address:
http://www.thepeakdistrictholidaycottage.co.uk/blog/wp-admin/au/apple//index.htm l?securitycenterlogin&hc=1&hm=au%601d72f%2Bj2b2vi%3C265securitycenterlogin&hc=1& hm=au%601d72f%2Bj2b2vi%3C265securitycenterlogin&hc=1&hm=au%601d72f%2Bj2b2vi%3C26 5

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