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Someone is spoofing my email address in the from field

Joemonkey

Joemonkey

Diamond Member
I'm receiving

**Message you sent blocked by our bulk email filter**

and

Mail delivery failed

and

Returned mail: see transcript for details

etc. emails about every 5 minutes, bunches of them. All the headers are NOT from my server, they are

host-66-202-22-202.buf.choiceone.net
cqb39.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl
Received: from [62.233.169.210] (helo=210.208/30.169.233.62.in-addr.arpa)
by mx.perfora.net (node=mxus12) with ESMTP (Nemesis),
Received: from api.home (host86-142-249-92.range86-142.btcentralplus.com [86.142.249.92])
by mx-relay.smjuhsd.k12.ca.us (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP

and many many more... w/ my email address as the "From:" as well as the "Reply To:" address...

Is there anything I can do?
 
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
that means someone else with your name in their address book has a virus.
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Yeah, you might be able to track down who it might be using ip's in the header, but it'll be a pain.


 
I had thought about that, but what's to stop spammers from getting a hold of a "known good" email list and just spoofing? are the chances someone has a virus much higher?
 
People use my domain for this semi-regularly. Nothing you can do, and no one will accuse you of actually spamming them.
 
Sure there are things you can do. Grab a copy of one of those messages, get the header info. File a claim with all the major spam houses tell them it's not your IP. If you have a domain hosted, set up a reverse DNS to your public IP so that they see that you are a legitimate user of that domain and that all other IPs sending the messages are not the official source. That will allow mail servers to allow messages coming from your IP.
 
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