toxickaty Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 I'm getting a ton of emails to my domain address(es) with the subject saying "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" or "Warning: message 1BVvoA-0006c8-Rw delayed 24 hours" (or similar). I haven't sent anything from my emails in months and months. Has/is someone spoofing my email address? I'm getting at least 100 a day of these clogging my inbox. I heard on TechTV that the spoofing occurs when the virus/worm infected computer has your email in their address book. But is there anything I can do at this point? This sucks. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 (edited) Yes, that's what it sounds like. I get them but not the quantity you are seeing. Just have to wait it out or create a new email address for yourself and kill this one. Edited June 5, 2004 by TCH-Bruce Quote
annie Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 That happens to lots of people. I have catch all e-mail on my domain, and a virus induced spam run started using manufactured addresses from my domain. Lots of bounces, and I got banned from e-mailing AOL for a while... Quote
Deverill Posted June 5, 2004 Posted June 5, 2004 I heard on TechTV that the spoofing occurs when the virus/worm infected computer has your email in their address book. But is there anything I can do at this point? This sucks. It can also occur at what seems random. I have a site that for 2 weeks has been getting from 50-100 of these a day. It is dropping off now but was very annoying for that time. I personally believe that the spammers are reaping web domains from the internet just to add credibility to their junk. Would you open a "hi there" from bob@oeuthkr.com or would you be more likely to open "Hi there" from quce@grandslamkw.com. (Probably neither, right? ) I had the helpdesk techs double check just to make sure my client wasn't infected or something (I'm a reseller) but they said it was just spam bouncing. It does suck and unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it but filter "delivery failed" and it's brethren from our mail boxes in cpanel. Quote
toxickaty Posted June 7, 2004 Author Posted June 7, 2004 Well thanks everyone for replying. I just wanted to make sure that if there was something I could do, that I was doing it. Quote
DarqFlare Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I've had numerous emails spoofed before... The most you can do is wait it out. They eventually ended for me. Quote
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