Someone is spoofing my email address to send SPAM. Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks.
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Spoofed email address
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I get this all the time. Spam sent to me from me. I also get emails bouncing back from people's spam filters to me even though I never sent the original spam email. Just an annoying fact of Internet life I guess. You notice how spam comes and goes anyway, either spammers are getting shut down/blacklisted or changing jobs or the spam filters then learn about them or something.
Absolutely nothing you can do about it.
After all, the from: field in any email is completely arbitrary, and most mailservers will let you put anything there. Then once the message is on the internet, the receiving server has no idea that it wasn't verified, and doens't know it wasn't really you either.
Unfortunately spam wasn't considered when the SMTP standards were created.
So... nothing you can do about it, other than wait it out. In my experience a spam-wave in someone's name rarely lasts longer than a week.
After all, the from: field in any email is completely arbitrary, and most mailservers will let you put anything there. Then once the message is on the internet, the receiving server has no idea that it wasn't verified, and doens't know it wasn't really you either.
Unfortunately spam wasn't considered when the SMTP standards were created.
So... nothing you can do about it, other than wait it out. In my experience a spam-wave in someone's name rarely lasts longer than a week.
OK, thanks anyway.
If they are using lots of addresses based upon your domain e.g. smith@... you can put a filter on your mailbox to automatically bin them and only allow through the email address that you use...saves having to delete alot of the spam manually.
I must be the odd one out then as I get that almost every day along with the obligatory virus interceptions.
That's an idea Shambler but, I was more concerned about having spam sent out with my name on it. It irks me. I guess I should just concede it's inevitable and just forget about it.
Check and make sure that you don't have a virus or trojan that is using your computer as a zombie...
My brother kept complaining that his email was filling up with bounced spam that he never sent. Except, when I checked... he did send it. He had a virus that was sending out spam from his computer. So it can happen (but it's probably not... but you might want to make sure...).
My brother kept complaining that his email was filling up with bounced spam that he never sent. Except, when I checked... he did send it. He had a virus that was sending out spam from his computer. So it can happen (but it's probably not... but you might want to make sure...).
On a slightly related topic: wasn't there supposed to be a new e-mail standard in the works (that I recall Yahoo! had a large interest in) that requires the sender to be from a verified source?
I'm sitting here wondering why we're stuck with SMTP given its lack of authenticity, which allows spammers/virii to get away with the majority of their workload, requiring us to get spam filters put in place.
I'm sitting here wondering why we're stuck with SMTP given its lack of authenticity, which allows spammers/virii to get away with the majority of their workload, requiring us to get spam filters put in place.