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Just Venting: I've Been Spoofed, I Think
Posted by Norski • 5/09/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: annoyances, email, spoofing, trouble
It's been a while since this happened.
My email account is full of failed attempts to send mail to a non-existent address on my domain
Why I'm getting the failure notices, considering that the things seem to have an Italian origin, I don't know. I suspect that someone managed to convince a mail server that my domain was sending the things, somewhere along the line.
Anyone with expertise have an informed opinion? Thanks.
Here's the start of one of the things:
"Subject:
A Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
From:
Mail Delivery Subsystem (Add as Preferred Sender) ?
Date: Fri, May 09, 2008 12:27 pm
To:
**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************"
User Comments
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yep, someone spoofed your addy and emailed a list. i had a slew of those a couple of weeks ago. quite frustrating to get bounce messages from emails you never sent. *sigh* -
It's rather simple to spoof a FROM address and not much you can do about it:
ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html
This site may help: www.spamcop.net/ -
This is much more serious than I was expecting this thread to be. I thought when you said you'd been spoofed you were going to tell us someone had created a blog called:
"Disinterested Sheep of the South" or something.
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