[mcs_]

Half of the spam I'm receiving comes from Amazom web services.

> I am Mark Ben John Bill. from FBI unit,i have been instructed by the FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, to inform you that out of our thorough investigation lately , we found out that one of the abandoned valid Packages such as ATM Cards And Consignment Boxes by diplomatic agents who complained that the beneficiaries failed to pay for the anti terrorist clearance certificate to guide and show that the fund is no way related to fraud or drug money,with the information we have here , we found out that one of the funds belongs to you and it worth the sum of $10.5 million US Dollars.

So, IMO, Fuck you AWS, I'm rich now!

[all_blue_chucks]

Why do you say this comes from AWS?

[teh_klev]

Likely spam originating from AWS IP addresses.

[all_blue_chucks]

AWS IP addresses are blacklisted by most email providers...

[teh_klev]

I'm not sure that's true, I've successfully dispatched SMTP mail from their platform without it getting blocked or tagged as spam.

[mcs_]

To be fair, the ratio of spam received from EC2 has dropped in the last month, something has definitely changed (or I'm not a target since then).

I'll let you know.

[all_blue_chucks]

You can send using SES or SNS but if you send from your own EC2 instance you are gonna have a bad time.

[zelly]

You have to request an rDNS record. It should get through Gmail if you do that, DKIM, SPF, and of course don't send actual spam.