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Subject:
My email address is being used in the "Reply To" line of Spam. Help
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: dianed-ga List Price: $20.00 |
Posted:
23 Dec 2004 08:07 PST
Expires: 22 Jan 2005 08:07 PST Question ID: 446434 |
I have been under a deluge of "return to sender" emails from legitimate ISPs because my email address is in the 'reply to' line of the spam. My name is not used, but it is my email address, and sometimes, a variation of the email address@mydomain, because my main email address is the catchall account for my domain. Is there anyway to stop this? Spam is bad enough, but to now have my name (my email address is as good as my name) on spam emails going around the world is infuriating. |
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Subject:
Re: My email address is being used in the "Reply To" line of Spam. Help
From: jack_of_few_trades-ga on 23 Dec 2004 08:20 PST |
My address was once used by a spammer to send out loads of junk mail. It was actually going out from my email, so I decided to change my password. That has prevented any further abuse of my addy. If your email is the catch-all for the domain then you will need to be sure the domain is locked to additional users and asking everyone in the domain to change their passwords isn't a bad idea. Those spammers are crafty and obnoxious. |
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Re: My email address is being used in the "Reply To" line of Spam. Help
From: hammer-ga on 23 Dec 2004 11:56 PST |
Dianed, *Everybody's* email address is being used in the Reply To line of spam. When creating the email, you can set the Reply To to anything you want, including somebody else's address. It's just yet another of the crummy things that spammers do to make their junk emails the problem of as many people as possible. Don't take it personally. You haven't been singled out or anything. :) - Hammer |
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Re: My email address is being used in the "Reply To" line of Spam. Help
From: escott-ga on 24 Dec 2004 08:40 PST |
I hope you pay this man, his answer is correct! |
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Re: My email address is being used in the "Reply To" line of Spam. Help
From: pinkfreud-ga on 24 Dec 2004 10:04 PST |
There's some good advice in this answer to an earlier question: http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=355995 |
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