Re: Help: my e-mail address is being spoofed by a spammer!

[Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi, Geoff :-)

> 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.

Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do. (My account got spoofed
last year...I can sympathize.) It will die down, then pick up again,
and continue with this cycle for awhile. Eventually it seems to
stop...more or less ;-)

Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.helpstuff.com
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