Hijacked Domain name for SPAM

[Bluebird]

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...

[DimPrawn]

The simple answer is no.

Turn off the catch all is the easiest option.

If you run your own mail server then there are options to reduce the bounces reaching you, but it is hassle IMHO.

[Bluebird]

The other thing I'm worried about is that this spam is going out to people who then may look at mywesite [ which is for my business ] - it gives the impression that my company is actually sending this spam out - not very good for my reputation !!!

[DimPrawn]

If it's any consolation, I have several websites and domains that have had or are having this issue and it is frustrating and annoying to say the least.

These ***** should be stabbed.

[Bluebird]

Thanks for your help DP.

[darmstadt]

Its just happening to me now as well and its a real pain in the derriere, bastards

[Ardesco]

Nothing much you can do about it.

Create a mail account in your favourite e-mail application and you will see that you can manually set the reply to address and the address that mail appears to come from. Lots of scummy scammers use this ability to effectivly mask who mail has come from.

If you run your own e-mail server you can set up an SPF record so that only mail orgination from your domain passes the SPF check, but not everybody uses SPF validation and there are a lot of people that don't think it helps anyway.

I have had a snotty e-mail before telling me to eff off and not send any more spam. I sent a reply telling him to check the IP address that the mail came from in the e-mail header and to do an SPF check on it, all of which would prove that it didn't originate from me or my mail server and never heard anything back. no manners some people

[Pondlife]

IP Address

Ardesco,

How can I find out the IP address of the sender?

TIA

PL


Edit: Just found it in the header.

[Spartacus]

Same is happening to me big time at the moment. Seems to come in waves though. The tide will subisde in a week or two.

[meridian]

Yep, same here. Ironically I'm getting more returns from blocked spammers using my domain name than actual spam in either my domain address or my Hotmail address