Bastad spammers

[watervole]

Someone has been using my email address to mail out spam recently - I've been getting loads of bounced spam coming back to me from duff addresses.

Of course, the inevitable follow-on.  My own genuine email is now bouncing back in some cases because my address is now a known spam source.

Grrrr.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> my address is now a known spam source.

Are you sure? No reputable spam filter would do that based on your address alone. They would do it based upon your mail server's address.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

I own over 200 domains. I have it happen to me regularly.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

You have what happen? You have your whole domain blacklisted because some spammer pretended to be from your domain? What software did this erroneous blocking?

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I know perfectly well that spammers fake email addresses.

I'm enquiring about how that domain thus got blacklisted and through what blacklisting service.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Because not all blacklisting services/software are created equal. Not all spammers are created equal. Some people just suck/dont suck more than others. lol

I own many two word domains and can no longer keep track of black listings or pursue getting them lifted. I just have to live through them. It's why I have only one protected domain I use for my own emails.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Don't feel badly. Happens to me sporadically. Eventually, it's sorted out.

[cdave]

Same thing happened to me. Without doing anything, it stopped in about 3 months. I was only getting about 10 bounce backs a day at the height though.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ditto -- this happens to one or other of my addresses every few months or so. Annoying at the time, but no long-term effects.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

Have you got SPF or something similar set up for proving that a mail doesn't come from you?

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

It happens to everyone - I occasionally see spams in the spamtrap claiming to come from myself.

Actually it's more likely that someone who has your address in their addressbook has a trojan on their machine, which is putting addresses from the addressbook into the "from" field.


This is why I don't use an addressbook