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Someone spamming and using my domain as return address [message #81993]

Thu, 22 March 2007 20:37

Jamie K

Messages: 1115
Registered: July 2006

Senior Member

Wow, this is crazy. I've received 60 bounces so far from spam email I
didn't send. Return address in all of them is my domain with random
characters ahead of it.

This ever happen to you? Any suggestions?

I've set up a mail filter to shunt the bounces off to a mailbox so it
doesn't clog up my inbox. I've send an email to tech support at my ISP,
although I don't know if they're around after hours.

Using TBird on OSX for email, if that matters.

Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com

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Re: Someone spamming and using my domain as return address [message #82026 is a reply to message #81993]

Fri, 23 March 2007 10:32

Doug Wellington

Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA

Senior Member

"Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote in message news:46034b3c$1@linux...
> Wow, this is crazy. I've received 60 bounces so far from spam email I
> didn't send. Return address in all of them is my domain with random
> characters ahead of it.
>
> This ever happen to you? Any suggestions?

Yes. I used to be doug@arizona.edu and one morning I came in to find 3600
bounced messages from undeliverable addresses at AOL. It was spam for a
porn site, so I also got a half dozen or so emails yelling at me about how
immoral porn is. Luckily, I got a copy of the spam message itself and
contacted the web provider where the site was hosted. They had it shut down
within an hour! Over that next year I think I had another five or six sites
shut down under similar circumstances... :-)

> I've set up a mail filter to shunt the bounces off to a mailbox so it
> doesn't clog up my inbox. I've send an email to tech support at my ISP,
> although I don't know if they're around after hours.

Have you checked the spam content to see what it's selling and where? Is
there an abuse contact at the provider? Depending upon how much time you
want to spend on this, I'd suggest looking at http://spam.abuse.net where
you can find a lot of info about what can be done and how to do it...

Doug

http://www.parisfaqs.com

http://www.parisfaqs.com

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Re: Someone spamming and using my domain as return address [message #82037 is a reply to message #81993]

Fri, 23 March 2007 13:28

TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007

Senior Member

Has happened to me repeatedly, and there's not much you can do about it. You'll
also get blacklisted on some spam lists, which is a huge PITA. Once you've
been tagged the spammer will move on to a new address.

TCB

Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote:
>
>Wow, this is crazy. I've received 60 bounces so far from spam email I
>didn't send. Return address in all of them is my domain with random
>characters ahead of it.
>
>This ever happen to you? Any suggestions?
>
>I've set up a mail filter to shunt the bounces off to a mailbox so it
>doesn't clog up my inbox. I've send an email to tech support at my ISP,

>although I don't know if they're around after hours.
>
>Using TBird on OSX for email, if that matters.
>
>Cheers,
> -Jamie
> www.JamieKrutz.com

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Re: Someone spamming and using my domain as return address [message #82044 is a reply to message #82026]

Fri, 23 March 2007 14:08

Jamie K

Messages: 1115
Registered: July 2006

Senior Member

Thanks Doug and Thad. I'm up to around 400 bounces but it seems to be
slowing down...

Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com

Doug Wellington wrote:
> "Jamie K" <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote in message news:46034b3c$1@linux...
>> Wow, this is crazy. I've received 60 bounces so far from spam email I
>> didn't send. Return address in all of them is my domain with random
>> characters ahead of it.
>>
>> This ever happen to you? Any suggestions?
>
> Yes. I used to be doug@arizona.edu and one morning I came in to find 3600
> bounced messages from undeliverable addresses at AOL. It was spam for a
> porn site, so I also got a half dozen or so emails yelling at me about how
> immoral porn is. Luckily, I got a copy of the spam message itself and
> contacted the web provider where the site was hosted. They had it shut down
> within an hour! Over that next year I think I had another five or six sites
> shut down under similar circumstances... :-)
>
>> I've set up a mail filter to shunt the bounces off to a mailbox so it
>> doesn't clog up my inbox. I've send an email to tech support at my ISP,
>> although I don't know if they're around after hours.
>
> Have you checked the spam content to see what it's selling and where? Is
> there an abuse contact at the provider? Depending upon how much time you
> want to spend on this, I'd suggest looking at http://spam.abuse.net where
> you can find a lot of info about what can be done and how to do it...
>
> Doug
>
> http://www.parisfaqs.com
>
>

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