Microsoft and Spam

Christopher Wojno — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:57:00 -0800

Today, I received and e-mail from a hotmail account explaining how I won a prize. It’s a clone of the English lottery scam, but the supposed Microsoft Award Team is listed as the sender. I figured I’d do the responsible thing and forward it off to abuse@microsoft.com. However, I was shocked when I received the following reply from MY mail server:

This is the mail system at host mail.adtrackersolutions.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

                  The mail system

<abuse@microsoft.com>: host maila.microsoft.com[131.107.115.212] said: 550
   5.7.1 <Your e-mail was rejected by an anti-spam content filter on gateway
   (131.107.115.212). Reasons for rejection may be: obscene language,
   graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail
   through the filter.> (in reply to end of DATA command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.adtrackersolutions.com
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 7718A48041
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; cwojno@.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:13:25 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; abuse@microsoft.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: dns; maila.microsoft.com
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 <Your e-mail was rejected by an anti-spam
   content filter on gateway (131.107.115.212). Reasons for rejection may be:
   obscene language, graphics, or spam-like characteristics. Removing these
   may let the e-mail through the filter.>

From: Christopher Richard Wojno <cwojno@.com>
Date: January 12, 2008 10:13:20 AM PST
To: abuse@microsoft.com
Subject: Fwd: CONGRATULATION!!!

OK, so I can’t tell Microsoft about spam because their spam filter refuses my message? That’s really stupid.

Wojno: Tag microsoft

Microsoft and Spam