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My domain is being used for spamming

July 6, 2009 by wroolie 4 Comments

ASCII Art Junk Mail
Creative Commons License photo credit: Yandle

I woke up this morning to about a hundred out-of-office replys in my inbox and junk mail folder.  It turns out, someone is using my Overpass.co.uk domain in an email reply-to and sending out loads of sex-related spam.

I’ve been searching for what to do about this, and it turns out that there’s not much I can do.  Since the spammers are not sending from my server and only using the reply-to, all I can do is hope that it stops soon.

Apprently, this is a pretty common problem.

If you get an email from Overpass, it wasn’t sent by me.

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  1. Anonymous says

    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am

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  2. Seshadri Dhanakoti says

    July 6, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    I would suggest catching someone who received this spam email and request a forward as an attachment. The hope is to catch the email headers and hopefully see if it can be helpful in tracing the spammer or at least reporting to someone/an agency. Generally, the Chinese proxies are the least protected and are used by scammers usually from the United States. Perhaps, there could be a pattern that someone will recognise and also a headway.Good luck hunting! Sesh

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  3. Eric Wroolie says

    July 7, 2009 at 10:16 am

    I'm just going to hope they move on to someone else. I don't really want to turn detective on this. It happens to a lot of people. It looks like they are just using my domain, with someone else's name before the @ in the reply-to on the email headers.

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  4. Eric Wroolie says

    July 7, 2009 at 10:16 am

    I'm just going to hope they move on to someone else. I don't really want to turn detective on this. It happens to a lot of people. It looks like they are just using my domain, with someone else's name before the @ in the reply-to on the email headers.

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