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

Subject: Re: Help: my e-mail address is being spoofed by a spammer!
From: Sharon Burton <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:49:17 -0800

This happened to me several times. My brother - the god of all things internet
who also runs my server - told me each time you just have to wait it out. It
takes about 5 days to abate.

It's pretty icky, tho. I got several really nasty emails from systems admin
people.

sharon

Sharon Burton
CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
951-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com




Quoting Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>:

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.


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