Hijacked Domain name for SPAM

[Sockpuppet]

Snap.

[PRC1964]

Me too.

Hopefully it'll all pass soon. For now, a few rules to clear out "Mail Delivery Failure" type emails seems to catch most of them.

[xoggoth]

Oddly enough I got a bit of spam about this problem the other day but deleted it unfortunately. There are those things same as you use to comment on blogs where you have to type in wiggly letters. Try a search on the net should turn it up. Also any email addresses displayed on your site should be images not in the html.

Also have a look at this
http://www.supanames.com/support/formmail.html

[Perhentian]

36K emails

Well I had a catch-all on my domain name and some booger in China used my domain as the from address when spamming. I received 36,000 email bounce backs in one weekend from those emails that had delivery failures. Couldn't delete them quick enough....

I got rid of the catch-all very quickly!

[expat]

Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help.

A while ago I purchased a Domain name which was my surname, the company I used Easily give access to a basic webmail function, I've got 2 'personal' mail addresses and a 'catch all'.

Recently I've been getting a fair amount of mail which seems to be 'returned' from other companies, it looks like sombody is using the domain name + any letters before the @ to send spam.

I'm getting all the returns.

I don't want to stop the 'catch' all as I use some other e-mails such as 'sales@' and 'admin@' to recieve mail.

Is there anything I can do ?

I currenly use yahoo mail to pick up mail in work as they don't have Outlook and it keeps my mail off the office systems.

Thanks for any help forthcoming...

1. turn off the catchall, and set up your own addresses explicitly, even if you have to pay more for your hosting. Unfortunately that means that senders who mis-type your address won't get through.
2. and don't use sales or admin (or info or accounts) because spammers will use them. Unfortunately that means that your customers can't easily remember the address.
3. Get a Gmail account and forward your mail to that: its default spam filter is good. Set up "accounts" in Gmail to allow you to "reply from" the address
it was sent to.
4. As suggested, get your Spam filter to throw away Returned mail. Unfortunately that means that if you mist-type a destination address,m you won't be informed.

When someone sends email, they get to say who it is from without that claim being verified. Just like a letter.

[martinb]

Same happened to me. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. Even more unfortunately it can have some knock-on effects. My domain got blacklisted by Microsoft - which meant I couldn't send emails to anyone on Hotmail or msn.com. Eventually, with the help of my ISP I got off the Microsoft blacklist - but its a right royal pain.

[Ardesco]

Same happened to me. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. Even more unfortunately it can have some knock-on effects. My domain got blacklisted by Microsoft - which meant I couldn't send emails to anyone on Hotmail or msn.com. Eventually, with the help of my ISP I got off the Microsoft blacklist - but its a right royal pain.

That shouldn't hapen unless you have an usecured server and tey are actually using your SMTP server to send the mail as well. Anybody with half a clue can have a look in the headers to find out where it originated and if the IP address doesn't match with your SMTP server it obviously hasn't come from you.

[autodial]

Dont display an email address on your website, only use photo format

[fridge]

a lot of this stuff is originating from robots. sad b******* they have nothing else to do all night