Some e-mail spammer thought it would be funny to use my domain as the reply to in a series of emails spams that are going out today. Obviously i’m concerned because I don’t want to be on any spamming list (heh email spamming anyway).
I’m recieving hundreds of “out of the office replies” per hour. Does anyone know how to combat an attack like this?
I need help . . . badly.
13 Responses to “Email Spam Messages? It’s not me.”
I’m having the same problem. I keep getting emails returned as not deliverable. The mail servers are simply using the Reply-to email address to send messages that the “email spam” was undeliverable. I didn’t send these emails, but keep getting these emails about the email was undeliverable. Obviously someone is using my email address as a reply-to for sending email spam out. It seems to be alot about Rolex watches. If you find an answer in combating this, I would appreciate a reply on this blog to help the rest of us out with dealing with these bastard.
I know people who always give out addresses like joe@hotmail.com rather than their own, thus sending potentially unwanted emails to some poor unsuspecting early adopter.
I’m more up on keeping spam from reaching my mailbox. I’ll give it some thought…
I can take a look at the headers.
here ya go..
I had a simialr situation but with txt messages to Cingular and Nextel 2 weeks ago, someone was spamming them with my email address, nothing I could do about it.
my site got spammed also. damn, email spammers!
I have had this happen more then once. Most of the time when this happens you pissed someone off. If its coming back to a true email at your domain then all you do is close the email down for a couple days or weeks. If its a cache all well then you need to turn that off and let it bounce.
Not really a lot you can do as for putting a stop to it on the emails that have already been sent. If you check the headers you can get the IP it was sent from and file a complaint to the ISP or host and they will shut the account down most of the time, but then you still may have to live with the emails for a couple days or weeks as they filter back to you.
Your domain doesn’t have an SPF record - according to the report below, this could be the source of the problem:
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=seoblackhat.com
If they spoof your domain, there is nothing you can do, just file a report with your host, they will understand.
Those spammers don’t send out email thru your mail server, do shutting down your mail server won’t help, except for not receiving the catch all emails.
#1) Declare an SPF record.
#2) Close the open relay or require authentication.
Email me if you need any help.
foward the domain the me, spamming is a small small world, btw we should make that link exchange deal
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Anyone who may be an expert at tracking this stuff down, I have the header information if you want to help.