Someone is sending hundreds of Spam from the following IP using my site as the reply to: Many of the mails are coming back to me undeliverable of course even though I have nothing to do with them. What is the best course of action to take?
It's happened to me a few times, after a day or so it usually stops as they move on. Often they use varying sender emails ie ded@domain and ytd@domain so removing a catchall email forwarder if possible can reduce the inbox a bit. Apart from that you have to sit it out as far as I know.
Yes, it has happened quite a few times now, it really gets under your skin. I wish that the mail servers had to check the mail address to verify sender before being able to continue the send.
Yeah....I will definately have to remove the catchall as they are all like: I tried to email the abuse email listed but it came back undeliverable
nothing you can do. Happened to me couple of times, just put a filter in your mail to put all returned email in delete folder.
Has anyone actually replied to you to complain? The content is She feels son into her Mother feels how sons tool moves into her back enter and it makes her to cry at <url removed> Hardly what I want my name on
Check your cgi-bin if you don't have any mailsend program there, they could be using that program to send the mail. I got this once, it cost me about over 3 gig bandwidth before I figured that one out. If they 'only' use your mailadres in the reply, I'd say sit and wait it out. And put up a bounce from the server to this the mailadres if it's not used.
Yeah the grammar is atrocious. Some one did the same thing on a gmail account I have. Google never really got back to me.
It has happened to 3 of my domains, just removing the catch all lets them bounce back and not hit you, it usually sorted it for me as I only ever used one email on the domains like info@ By the time you complain and hear anything back ,if at all, it will have stoppped.
Its funny how much more you have to deal with as your profile in the SEs raise. Now that we rank #1 for our terms, I have to deal with this kind of stuff constantly. Of course I wouldn't trade it for anything
Yeah a #1 spot can cause all kinds of problems. One time Robert Redford said that he would give me the #1 spot for just one night with my wife. My wife and I were young and poor and thought about what we could do with that #1 spot. We took him up on his offer. Our marriage fell apart, but I really can’t blame it on Google.
The first time I had that happen I immediately called earthink and they shut it off real quick. It was obviouusly a spammer using a mailing list for the ones that kept bouncing were in one particular letter of alphabet. As you say it is maddening having someone use your name in any way but with pornographic spam yikes. Good luck. Shannon
yfs, if it is coming in from one address you can just turn that one off rather than removing the catch all. Not sure if that helps you or not
It seemsed to be a random first part of the email. After a huge blitz - it then stopped as predicted. With over 150 emails getting bounced, it make me wonder how many got through
My guess would be something like 3,000 depending on the "quality" of the mailing list they got. Those guys normally tend to switch return emails quickly.