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Subject:
Spammers hijacked my domain
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: medicalmasks-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
02 Nov 2006 08:27 PST
Expires: 02 Dec 2006 08:27 PST Question ID: 779416 |
Spammers are sending thousands of emails which show my domain as the sender. I'm now getting three thousand "Undeliverable", "Delivery Failure", "Failure Notice", "Delivery Status Notice (Failure)", "Returned mail: see transcript for detail" emails each day, and the problem is getting worse. My question is how can I stop whoever is using my domain (email address) from doing so? |
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Re: Spammers hijacked my domain
From: qed100-ga on 02 Nov 2006 09:44 PST |
I don't know what the definitive solution may be, but first of all you should report this directly to your service provider. They may be able to patch up the hole. |
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Re: Spammers hijacked my domain
From: bcattwood-ga on 02 Nov 2006 09:45 PST |
Not much. If there was an easy answer to this, the global war on spam would take a major step forward. With so much spam being sent from "zombie" networks and/or overseas, the likelihood of finding a prosecutable offender is slim though. Best to try to set up some spam filters to get rid of the false returns. |
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Re: Spammers hijacked my domain
From: robotguy-ga on 02 Nov 2006 20:32 PST |
The same has happened to me. After considerable research I found that what is happening is the spammer is using fake addresses from your domain as return address for his spam emails. The catch all account receives all bounced emails which is what you are getting. Apparently there is no way to prevent people from using any return address they like in their outbound emails. I simply set the 'catch all' account to an empty account and set up a autoresponder to send back 'A spammer is illegally abusing this domain for return addresses. Please email xxxx [AT] yyyy.com if you have sent a real email to this account and are receiving this message. Of course I made xxxx [AT] yyyy.com another forwarding account to my real account so I could always cut it off if the spammer caught on. Good luck |
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Re: Spammers hijacked my domain
From: frde-ga on 03 Nov 2006 02:51 PST |
Yes, someone has been using my Email address as a return address, and I'm also getting 'undeliverable' responses. Annoying, but not much I can do about it. I use Mailwasher to screen my mail. |
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