Spammer problem
 

Yes, another one... some advice would be appreciated.

One of the domain names that I own (not the one I'm posting from,
fortunately!) is being used in the 'From' address of bulk e-mailing. I
know this because I'm receiving plenty of bounce reports each day
where has attempted to e-mail many not-so
random addresses (they look like they're taken from a list). It's all
the usual spam : get rich, better pills, you know the stuff.

Fortunately, any techy person worth their salt knows that the From
address on spam is nearly always forged, and they can trace the
headers for the true culprit. But most of these poor recipients won't
be in that case, and so my domain name is surely getting a bad
reputation.

Is there anything I can do? The only thing I can think of is to work
through the headers each time I get one of these bounce messages and
report it to the appropriate ISP. Trouble is, they're often quite
munged with no real case of who can be blamed.

Any comments and advice would be appreciated! Typical not-at-all
Cambridge related cam.misc posting, I'm afraid. :-)

Thanks,

Sam
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Sam Holloway, Cambridge

D'oh (was Spammer problem)
 

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:10:53 +0000, Sam Holloway
wrote:
Yes, another one... some advice would be appreciated.

Many apologies, folks - completely the wrong newsgroup. :-(

Sam
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Sam Holloway, Cambridge

Spammer problem
 

"Sam Holloway" wrote in message
...

Yes, another one... some advice would be appreciated.

I know it's the wrong group, but no matter. I've had this happen a couple
of times and there's basically nothing you can do. People/ISPs understand
that this sort of thing happens - I've never had any trouble with my domain.

Ian

Spammer problem
 

Is there anything I can do? The only thing I can think of is to work
through the headers each time I get one of these bounce messages and
report it to the appropriate ISP. Trouble is, they're often quite
munged with no real case of who can be blamed.

Any comments and advice would be appreciated! Typical not-at-all
Cambridge related cam.misc posting, I'm afraid. :-)

Thanks,

Sam

I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep deleting all the mail. The same
thing happened to me. Although I got 100's of failed to be delivered
e-mails. And another 100 saying my e-mail had contained a virus and so
had been bounced. Spent a couple of weeks deleting them and it
stopped.
Over the weekend Bill Gates has come up with the great idea of
charging people each time an e-mail is returned to sender. To try and
stop spam. Not sure how it will work and if it will.