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I have recently been getting 40-50 returned e-mails a day that say they are
coming from my domain name with names like (e-mail address removed)
Anyone got any ideas? They seem to have been sent while my PC is offline.
Thanks
 
doug said:
I have recently been getting 40-50 returned e-mails a day that say
they are coming from my domain name with [sent to] names like
(e-mail address removed) Anyone got any ideas? They seem to
have been sent while my PC is offline. Thanks
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It was your turn in the barrel at spammer headquarters. Some spammer
has used your address as the FROM: address, and you are getting all
the bounces to bad/non-existent addresses on his list.

Typically, he will use a victim address to "mark the spot" in the
list, for maybe 500, or 5,000 spams, and then move on to another. It
should subside in a day or so.
 
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I have recently been getting 40-50 returned e-mails a day that say they are
coming from my domain name with names like (e-mail address removed)
Anyone got any ideas? They seem to have been sent while my PC is offline.
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I managed to stop such emails getting to me when it was my turn a while
back by turning off "catch-all" email forwarding, so only specific@domain
was delivered, the rest was bounced back and have kept it so ever since.

Adam Piggott,
Proprietor,
Proactive Services (Computing).


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Adam

Could you tell me how to do that, I'm using OE as my client (yes I know )
any advice would be appreciated

Doug
 
Typically, he will use a victim address to "mark the spot" in the
list, for maybe 500, or 5,000 spams, and then move on to another. It
should subside in a day or so.
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Don't bank on it. When I was "Joe jobbed" a year ago, it peaked to a rate of
2000 - 3000 a day, and continued for 2 months. In the end I was forced to
change my email address, etc.

Now I use a temporary free hotmail address for "public consumption", to keep my
own address clean...
 
Johnie wrote:

[Beauregard wrote:]
Don't bank on it. When I was "Joe jobbed" a year ago, it peaked to
a rate of 2000 - 3000 a day, and continued for 2 months. In the end
I was forced to change my email address, etc.
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A Joe Job isn't normal spammer operation, though. You pissed someone
off, and he did it to get even. Typically, spammers will do as I said
above. [though I will admit spammers are neither normal nor typical.]
Now I use a temporary free hotmail address for "public
consumption", to keep my own address clean...
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A wise idea... <g>
 
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Adam

Could you tell me how to do that, I'm using OE as my client (yes I know )
any advice would be appreciated

Doug
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Sorry about the delay, been away from Usenet for a while :-)

If you do not know how to turn off "catch-all" email forwarding, then you
will have to consult your email provider or your domain name provider for
further help. It isn't an OE setting, it's something that has to be done at
the email provider's side of things.

HTH,


Adam.


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