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Emptied of expectation. Relax. ([personal profile] tinyjo) wrote2003-09-18 02:23 pm

Intrusion alert!

OK, it's much worse than I thought. Someone else is sending out a ton of spam email purporting to come from my domain. It seems to be the style of spam that I've been getting recently (prescription meds stuff) so I assume that's where they found the domain name. Now the question is, how do I get them to fuck the hell off and stop doing it? I figured out that it's not being sent from my computer because after disinfecting it, I shut it down for a bit as a test and logged onto my email using webmail and my office computer. And I've just received another bounce message stating the original mail was received at 9:06 EST (i.e. 14:06 GMT). While my laptop was turned off, and had been for a good hour. On the plus side this means that I can turn the laptop back on, reassured that it's completely clean of mail sending crap but on the minus side, what the hell do I do about this?

Re: ...no cigar.

[identity profile] mzdt.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
...just goes to prove I know nothing, but at least I use my ignorance for peaceful purposes.

I tend to use the company name@my domain as an email address when shopping; when anyone starts spamming me using that address, I set the forwarding to go to them. Lovely.

Not the same, but satisfying nevertheless...