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Help: my e-mail address is being spoofed by a spammer!
Subject:Help: my e-mail address is being spoofed by a spammer! From:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:15:29 -0500
I suppose it had to happen. In the past couple hours, some spammer has
used my e-mail address to spoof the "from:" line of their e-mail
headers. In the past hour, I've received several hundred bounce
messages for mail I never sent. (Fortunately, my junk mail filter traps
most of it.)
Any thoughts on what I can do other than buying large quantities of
antacids? I assume that until the current storm abates--i.e., until the
spammer gets bored because the junk filters are trapping their spoofed
messages--I'm stuck with the problem unless I'm willing to change
e-mail addresses and notify a _large_ number of people of the change.
Fortunately, no angry e-mails yet from victims of the spam.
(Note: I'm using Mac OS-X, so it's very unlikely I've been infected
with spyware or had my Mac turned into a spam zombie... no such
software has been reported yet for the Mac. Also no viruses, though my
antivirus subscription is up to date.)
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