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05.08.04: Domain spoofing

Spammers have been spoofing my domain for a couple months now (sending out spam with an @flummox.com return address), and it's starting to annoy the hell out of me. Is there any way to combat this?

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Unfortunately, no. Thanks to the Simple in SMTP, you can send out email saying you're whoever you want to be. I just got a hate mail from somebody in the UK asking why I sent him a virus. Luckily he understood eventually that it wasn't really me, but still annoying nonetheless. You could try and use the headers to track down where it's actually coming from, but chances are it's a hacked machine anyway.

Posted by: Matt on May 9, 2004 12:03 PM

yeah, figured as much. Been submitting the attached emails to spamcop now and then as I receive bounces. Guess I'm pretty much SOL, unless I want to kill the catch-all on my domain.

Posted by: ChrisA on May 9, 2004 05:35 PM

Kill the catch-all on your domain! After you've done that and changed all your current email addresses, obfuscate them on your website to prevent the harvest bots from picking them up. Try this:

http://www.railheaddesign.com/pages/software/spamstopper/spamstopper.html

Posted by: pangmaster on May 10, 2004 07:43 AM

I killed my catch all over a year ago and havent looked back.

Posted by: Josh on May 10, 2004 10:09 AM

Hmm...While SpamSieve catches a good percentage of the junk coming in, it's still annoying to download a hundred spams for every good email.

One of my primary uses of the catch-all is the ability to use targeted addresses for various signups, etc... websitename@flummox, that sort of thing. If I dump it I'm gonna lose email from pretty much every site I've ever signed up for.

Guess I could go through all the account emails I've got saved and change my contact address... would have to move to a different kind of system for forms...what do you use as your address for website signups? Your regular email? Dummy account?

Posted by: ChrisA on May 10, 2004 10:53 AM

I use yahoo for websites. I don't care if I get an assload of spam there.

Posted by: pangmaster on May 10, 2004 12:40 PM

Yes. Stop viewing Hentai.

Posted by: Lenny on May 11, 2004 08:08 AM

Hentai? Come on, tentacle porn is so passe. It's all about the bukkake.

Posted by: ChrisA on May 11, 2004 09:17 AM

I'm immune. Watching some dude get covered just doesn't do it for me anymore...

Posted by: Lenny on May 12, 2004 09:41 AM
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