I'm Spamming Myself

lomodyj

lomodyj

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Just checked my "spam" folder (Eudora V7) and there are several emails from my own address to the same address that are spam...So somebody has been able to replicate my address and is sending out spam (and since I have several...wonder how many more have been sent).

I own the domain, and have the website and email hosted at a comercial hosting service...

How do I get the spammers to quit using that address. How do I keep this from happening again...and any guesses on how they can use my address?
 
SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) at it finest...

I can telnet to port 25 on a mail server, type a few commands, and the end result is an email to a *known good* email addy within that servers domain from any email address I choose to input (spat@IamPW.com for example)... the from addy gets all bounces, replies, or returns... IOW, manually do what a sending email server. That's how it works...

On our corporate email system, I'm able to filter by domain, IP (single or range), ReverseDNS, RBLS, *several* content/phrase filters, virual filters, and several other nethods... and only get about 95% of it with about .25% false positive... (avg. 8k-10k messages/day inbound... legit & otherwise)
 
If you looked at the internet headers, you'd see that they were only processed inbound by your mail server, and came from else where (my bet - across the pond somewhere).

It's sick.. 80% of ALL e-mail traffic worldwide is spam.
 
Rich said:
If you looked at the internet headers, you'd see that they were only processed inbound by your mail server, and came from else where (my bet - across the pond somewhere).
It's sick.. 80% of ALL e-mail traffic worldwide is spam.
Click to expand...

That figure is correct!! I get a weekly report from my spam filtering service and at our organization 82% of 15 to 18K emails a week are spam!! Imagine how much faster the internet would be if those email were eliminated!!
 
Imagine me sending out a letter via US mail and I put an incorrect address on it, but I put your return address on it. USPS can't deliver it so it gets sent back to you. Same thing is occuring here. You can inspect the mail headers and possibly find an IP to trace the mail back to whick will be a rogue server in Asia or somewhere.
 
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