Help with SPAMMER masquerading as me

[vulcanman]

I have a domain (say, acme.com) and I have configured a default email box (catchall@acme.com) that routes invalid emails to my real address (self@acme.com). I use the catchall feature to create email addresses on the fly when I signup on web sites (lilke asdsd@acme.com).

I have had this setup for the last 6 years and things have been working great. But recently, I noticed that spammers have got hold of my domain name and using it in the "reply-to" field of their spam emails.

As a result, I have started receiving tons of "Invalid Email Address" responses from destinations the spammer is sending it to.

I can configure my email server to trash all emails that cannot be routed to a specific user ... but that would prevent me from receiving even genuine emails that are sent to my domain.

Can anyone help please ?

Max

 

[coopermckay]

SAME thing happened to me. Well not exactly but i had ICQ years ago, when it first came out . i dont know how but someone was able to steal my icq account . not sure why they would want to.. i dont know much about domain stuff but i would say

 

[Adul]

disable the catch all.

 

[camara120]

Keep using the catchall and setup a filter to trash any email that contains "invalid email address" or whatever the exact text is?

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: camara120
Keep using the catchall and setup a filter to trash any email that contains "invalid email address" or whatever the exact text is?

sounds like a good idea try it