OT : Someone's using my domain to .....

...... send spam mails.

I'm getting load of emails saying undeliverable message originally posted
from

Is there 'owt I can do to put a stop to this hi-jacking, or do I just have
to ignore it ?

 

I get loads of these, all I can do is set a rule in outlook, looking for
'undelivered' and send it to deleted folder
Our security software still cannot protect against this spam unfortunatly

 

Part of life when you've got a domain. I just use a bunch of filters in
Mailwasher, for example if the entire header contains @muddystuff.co.uk
but doesn't contain any of the actual addresses I use, it gets
automatically deleted.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
Off-Road Classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Live with it. There seems to be a bit of a spate at the moment. I'm
getting them as are some of my clients.

--
Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 75 TS 156 TS S2
Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

Hello,
Are the spammer using mail addresses witch are in use at your domain ?
If not, you could perhaps disable the "catch all" service on the mailserver
?

 

It's someone using others domains in a "pump and dump" scam, not a lot you
can do really. I am having the same probs too.

 

Ahhh.... taps forehead....

<FX Furious Mouse Clicking and Typing> "Forward any e-mail sent to an
address other than the ones above to:-" - removes email address.</FX>

Job done, I'd forgotten how easy "ukreg domain config services" were to use.

Ta Muchly !

 

Brownz @ Work () gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

<waves>
Bin there, dun that.

At one stage, I was getting north of 10,000 delivery failures per HOUR.

It's called a JoeJob.

 

Nothing you can do to stop it - but it will probably slow down after
a couple of weeks.

What you DO need to do ASAP is circulate your usual contacts and tell
them what has happened and make sure they whitelist you - otherwise
there will be a lot of your genuine emails that won't get through
because they will have been blacklisted by some overenthusiastic
anti-spamware.

HTH

Chris D

 

Been having them on one of my domains for a few months now. Filtered out all
mail with "delivery Failure".

This *may* be of some help if your ISP supports it:

http://www.openspf.org/

 

Get your mail setup so it doesn't have a catch all facility , or at least
route it to a separate mailbox.
Anything sent from an invalid address @ your domain will just get binned
then
--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

 

Brownz @ Work wrote

Report it to the pigs as fraud.

And now I have stopped laughing just send it to Spamcop and forget.


Although I did have an idea. Do you all remember when the IRA were
being joe jobbed in this way and how it doesn't happen anymore. Now I
can only guess at how they managed to stop the spammers doing this but
istm that they have the basis of a very effective anti spam organisation
and should use what they have got. I mean, imagine irony of the likes
of good old English prossies paying them to do "stuff" on their behalf.

 

"Nottin' stops spam like an Armalite."