Spammers are using email address off of my site.

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Nuttyguy

This really ticks me off.

Ok, the spam I got from foolishly having my email address on my website was
a nuisance but tolerable. Now, this weekend I started getting all of these
system administrator and postmaster emails saying I've sent
(e-mail address removed) a bad email attachment or that the email address I
sent to was bad. The first three I got, with attachment, I assumed were a
new spam ploy to get me to read the message. Now with about 30 of them I
see there's a problem.

My first question is this: Is there anything I can do to solve this?

I've already done the following:

1) Placed notice on my site that I'm aware that spammers are making it look
as though their email came from me.

2) I found java-scripts to hide my email from bots searching my site.

3) I have an enquiry ready to send to my host's Q & A team if I ever find
their damn address on the site.

My second question is, how do I keep this from happening in the future? Are
the steps I've taken good enough?

Thanks for any input.
 
I've had several clients say they've found mailboxes (online domain email/
domain email) with up to 250 of the same type of junk you're getting. there
seems to be quite a run on it.
I'd like to shove the jerk who started it into the trunk of his car.
 
I was having the same problem. Here is how I fixed it. I went into my
Email Management and set a max size of 90kbs per email. That solved the
problem because the attachments that came on these emails were bigger than
95kbs. I will let the 90kbs size stand for awhile while this worm subsides
and goes away then I will re-adjust the size.
Hope this helps.
Felix
 
Ok, the spam I got from foolishly having my email address on my website
was
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"IF" the problem is due to people running scripts or programs to
troll through web sites and snatch anything that looks like an email
address..often just looking for text with an "@" in it... I wonder if
- this would solve it..
A) change your email address for a start - since your current one is
"out there" and being used! and likely will be for a long time! if not
forever!
B) placing the new email address within a small Flash file, on your
page.. that 'might' prevent it from being "seen", still clickable and
usable by visitors - but may not be able to be scanned for by these
scammers!

?Wonder if this would do it?
 
This is a symptom of the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus. Your email address was found on the PC of someone who is infected, and their PC is sending out the emails. Until that PC is cleaned up, there's really nothing you can do, except run a program like Mailwasher to filter those emails out.
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Short of notifying everyone who has my email address that they might have a
virus is there anything else I can do? Thanks for this information. I'm
looking up this virus right now.
 
Stuart,

One way to keep spammers from trolling your site for email addresses is to
encode any email addresses in Javascript. The script below does not contain
anything resembling an email address but displays and works properly:

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
var showlink = "YOUR LINK NAME";
var showname = "EMAIL NAME";
var site = "WEB ADDRESS.com";
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + showname + "&#64" + site + ">" +
showlink + "</a>")
// End -->
</script>

Larry
"IF" the problem is due to people running scripts or programs to
troll through web sites and snatch anything that looks like an email
address..often just looking for text with an "@" in it... I wonder if
- this would solve it..
A) change your email address for a start - since your current one is
"out there" and being used! and likely will be for a long time! if not
forever!
B) placing the new email address within a small Flash file, on your
page.. that 'might' prevent it from being "seen", still clickable and
usable by visitors - but may not be able to be scanned for by these
scammers!

?Wonder if this would do it?
Click to expand...

--
For your security and peace of mind ALL emails are automatically scanned

with the latest Norton AV Virus Definitions. Not that I have any virus'

but why not be careful! I get virus signature updates regularly!

A Belt and Suspenders are the best security invented!
 
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