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Sudden receipt of spam emails
25-04-2014 2:42 PM
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Hi, can anyone please advise me on how to stop a sudden increase in spam -
I have suddenly received some spam emails in the last couple of weeks, one a week ago, which I recognised as being from someone I knew (but I did not open it), then another couple, and now 9 in one go today. They are all addressed to fax@my domain name which is not an address I have ever used, then they are forwarded to plusnet. How can I determine where they are coming from and stop them? I have never had this many in one go.
Or do I just direct them to my spam filter and forget about it?
They are pretty random, but several of them are entitled 'returned undeliverable', as if I am now the original sender, when I certainly was not. Also, the address is actually just made up, but it is getting through as it can be addressed with 'anything'@domain name
Any advice is appreciated,
Keith
I have suddenly received some spam emails in the last couple of weeks, one a week ago, which I recognised as being from someone I knew (but I did not open it), then another couple, and now 9 in one go today. They are all addressed to fax@my domain name which is not an address I have ever used, then they are forwarded to plusnet. How can I determine where they are coming from and stop them? I have never had this many in one go.
Or do I just direct them to my spam filter and forget about it?
They are pretty random, but several of them are entitled 'returned undeliverable', as if I am now the original sender, when I certainly was not. Also, the address is actually just made up, but it is getting through as it can be addressed with 'anything'@domain name
Any advice is appreciated,
Keith
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Re: Sudden receipt of spam emails
25-04-2014 2:59 PM
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Ignore them, bin them.
That is all you can really do. Once the spammers have got hold of your email address, short of changing it or blacklisting/blackholing the specific address it is being sent to (i.e. fax@yourdomain) there is little you can do. The spoofing emails where the spammers use your email address as a return address is a pain but unavoidable (other than doing the above).
I once had a few thousand emails come bouncing back to me as undeliverable when a spammer when on a rampage with one of my email addresses as the "reply to" - I ended up disabling the catchall account and restricting incoming mail to just a few mailboxes I used.
That is all you can really do. Once the spammers have got hold of your email address, short of changing it or blacklisting/blackholing the specific address it is being sent to (i.e. fax@yourdomain) there is little you can do. The spoofing emails where the spammers use your email address as a return address is a pain but unavoidable (other than doing the above).
I once had a few thousand emails come bouncing back to me as undeliverable when a spammer when on a rampage with one of my email addresses as the "reply to" - I ended up disabling the catchall account and restricting incoming mail to just a few mailboxes I used.
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25-04-2014 3:36 PM
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Thanks DomS, that's what I suspected, I will do as suggested,
cheers
Keith
cheers
Keith
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