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9 Jan 2007 Help! I've been spoofed!

[Misc] Over the holidays I've noticed that my email account was accumulating lots of "Undelivered Mail returning" emails from various place. The trouble is I didn't actually send out any emails to all those people. Which leads me to one conclusion; my email address is being ill-used for spam emailing.

I takes a closer look into the failed email and it's plaster with my @graxdomain email address with various characters bolted on to the begin. So far I've received 168 failed emails. I hate to think about how many successful spams have been sent out.

I am quite miffed, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I've notified my webhost provider, who says that they'll look into it. I did a quick search on the Internet and learnt that this kind of spamming is called 'Spoofing' or something like that. I need to do more research to see if it's actually possible to stop this abuse.

Has anyone else been a victim of spoofing? How did you cope/deal with it?

Posted at: 0:47 AM

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