Re: Yahoo! Mail bouncing Spamcop replies to reports

Mike Easter wrote:

> Mark Jones wrote:
> 
>> Your email address, [email protected] has returned a bounce:
> 
>> UP Email not accepted for policy reasons.
>>  http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-04.html
> 
>> As I regularly report phishing emails to
>> Spamcop any replies from Spamcop will bounce if they are caught by
>> Yahoo's ant-phishing technology.
> 
> How so?
> 
> If you email report/submit to spamcop, what SC sends to the yahoo addy
> is a trackerlink and some headers in the body.  Those headers are simply
> the headers of the mail sent which contains the phish or spam in the
> body, not the phish or the spam or the phish or the spam's headers.
> 
> How do you theorize the trackerlink [for a spam or phish] + sending
> headers thereof will trip yahoo's antiphish [or fraud or viruses also
> mentioned at the top link] tech?
> 
> 
> 

I apologise, I could have been clearer in explaining that the phishing email
did not originate from or contain links pertaining to Yahoo! servers and so
the corresponding Spamcop *report* is not going to Yahoo!. What I meant was
the email address that I use to send reports to and receive replies from
Spamcop is based at Yahoo! so, therefore, *responses from ISPs* (that often
contain the original reported spam/phish) are sent to Spamcop and
redirected by Spamcop to my Yahoo! address. It is these that I presume were
blocked by Yahoo! anti-phishing filters and caused the bounce back to
Spamcop.

Hope that clarifies.

Mark