Concerning spam from our domain

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SSCBen
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Concerning spam from our domain

Post by SSCBen » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:29 pm

I just opened my email to get 300+ bounced emails. A spammer is forging sscentral.org emails. We don't send spam, so don't send me a message about it. I probably won't even be able to read it through all the bounced messages I'm receiving.

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Re: Concerning spam from our domain

Post by Silence » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:49 pm

How are they spoofing an sscentral.org address? Can you stop it, or do we just wait it out?

Hope things improve, for your sake.

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Re: Concerning spam from our domain

Post by SSCBen » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:49 pm

They're spoofing my email address. It's a very easy to do task because there's no verification stage in email. I could send email with any from address I want.

It's died down a little bit, but I'm still getting bounces. Hopefully it will end completely today.

There's nothing I can do to stop this aside from switching email addresses.

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