Help - hijacked domain ...

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Mike Faithfull

I hope someone here can help me, I don't know where else to go ... My
domain name is being used by a person or persons unknown for sending
unsolicited mail - mostly to AOL destinations, it would seem. How can
someone do this, and how can I stop it? I have contacted my ISP and they
say there's nothing they can do. I'm waiting for a response from
(e-mail address removed) . I really want to stop this from happening as soon as
possible.
 
I hope someone here can help me, I don't know where else to go ... My
domain name is being used by a person or persons unknown for sending
unsolicited mail - mostly to AOL destinations, it would seem. How can
someone do this, and how can I stop it? I have contacted my ISP and they
say there's nothing they can do. I'm waiting for a response from
(e-mail address removed) . I really want to stop this from happening as soon as
possible.
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If you mean that you have domain name, and someone else uses that "domain
name", fex. domain www.myowndomain.com and it would be used as
(e-mail address removed) as sender field, there is not that much you can do
about it besides findind out WHO uses it and request them to stop it. Those
adresses where "mail" is sent from can be about anything. Good luck in your
quest to stop that, because you will need all luck there is and even then
might not succeed.
 
Wÿrm said:
If you mean that you have domain name, and someone else uses that "domain
name", fex. domain www.myowndomain.com and it would be used as
(e-mail address removed) as sender field, there is not that much you can do
about it besides findind out WHO uses it and request them to stop it. Those
adresses where "mail" is sent from can be about anything. Good luck in your
quest to stop that, because you will need all luck there is and even then
might not succeed.
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The best I can manage is to "whois" the headers to discover that the
perpetrator is a dial-up customer of an ISP in Greece, Chile, Italy (or
wherever the particular message at the time comes from!). The odd part is
that AOL seems to have been targetted for recipients as that's the only
source of "undelivered mail" messages. Or perhaps that's not so odd with an
automated spamming program ..
 
The best I can manage is to "whois" the headers to discover that the
perpetrator is a dial-up customer of an ISP in Greece, Chile, Italy (or
wherever the particular message at the time comes from!). The odd part is
that AOL seems to have been targetted for recipients as that's the only
source of "undelivered mail" messages. Or perhaps that's not so odd with an
automated spamming program ..
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hmm, sounds like who ever is doing spammin might have nicely laid set of
spam zombies in compromised machines all over.

And maybe he/she has AOL adress list that's being spammed through. there are
lists for certain specific addys, and some spam programs can contain
"filters" so messages can only be spammed to addys with certain things,
like @aol.com ...

Spamming is nasty business, and for it's popularity you can partly thank USA
and their "OPT OUT" policy, instead of compared europe's opt in policy.

Right now spam problem is actually so bad it starts alienate normal people
from using e-mail and something must be done...
 
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