Help! Im not sending this spam

[laura-lou]

Hello,

i have never been on a forum before so please excuse my ignorance...but i wondered if anyone could help me please?

I have discovered that spam emails relating to debt reduction is being sent out "supposedly" from my domain/email address. I have never and will never have anytging to do with sending spam and i dont know if theres anything i can do to stop this?

any help would be greatly appreciated,

thanks Laura

[shmengie]

Hi Laura-Lou,

There is little to nothing you can do about this. The e-mail in question most likely does not originate from you or your SMTP server. If someone you know is accusing you, have them use spam cop, which will indicate to some degree the actual source of the e-mail. Although the origin may be from within the same isp, based on the odds, that is not the case.

My guess is that someone who has you in their address book, is infected with a robot virus. That virus/robot may be pulling your e-mail address out of the hat, to be the originator of the spam.

From the spammer's/virus author's point of view, it makes it *more* likely the spam will be read and possibly acted upon.

[laura-lou]

thank you for your advice, guess i will have to hope it burns itself out!

[shmengie]

Here's another thread in this forum which may shed some light for you.

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=26552

[Wazoo]

Most folks "hear" about their domain being forged when they gat hammered with bounced, non-deliverable e-mail. It happens so often that a FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) entry exists. check the Forum FAQ, look for the entry "Why am I getting all these bounces? Updated! "

[nida_pakistani]

thax 4 advice

[ccton]

I've got three mails "delivery failed", there is one of the them:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at aussiecom.com.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.

This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<bobwintermy[at]bushwalking.org.au>:

This address no longer accepts mail.

<rostulove[at]bushwalking.org.au>:

This address no longer accepts mail.

<GUGR8583.mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz[at]bushwalking.org.au>:

This address no longer accepts mail.

<alderman[at]bushwalking.org.au>:

This address no longer accepts mail.

omit a very long list here

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <support[at]vicdir.com>

Received: (qmail 30901 invoked from network); 15 May 2005 08:12:49 -0000

Received: from 219-89-118-170.adsl.xtra.co.nz (HELO mfcfu.com) (219.89.118.170)

  by ev1s-66-98-248-67.ev1servers.net with SMTP; 15 May 2005 08:12:49 -0000

From: support#vicdir.com this is my address

To: server[at]bushwalking.org.au

Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 05:11:09 UTC

Subject: S.O.S. Kiez! Polizei schlaegt Alarm

Importance: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Message-ID: <22d8dbb4f36b.af14df[at]yeedgxuyn.com>

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Lese selbst:

http://bz.berlin1.de/archiv/041115_pdf/BZ0..._GB2IG556.1.htm

The mails contain a 3.01~3.03KB .dat file and a file without expend name (less than 1KB).

I believe this will continuely happen, how could I do about this?

[Wazoo]

ccton's last post moved from Reporting Help, merged into this Topic, PM'd to advise of the move ... made note that the contents of the spam sample matched that of yet another Topic ....

[Jeff G.]

could I do about this?

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