hawker wrote:
I'm having a serious issue with my e-mail address being spoofed.
I'm not sending the e-mails but they are using my return address so I
get all the bounces.
The only publicly viewable (harvistable?) form I can think of that I
post on with this e-mail address is this one.
So I'm wondering if others are having this issue. In hindsight I should
use a trash e-mail address but I think the damage is done and it is too
late. It has been 2 months of a couple hundred bounces a day and is
getting old fast.
Hawker
Not for a very long time (Knocking on desktop). Looking at my return
address you will see a real live mail address. The folks managing this
form have somehow gotten rid of the ,ail harvesters (RidEx maybe).
Your e-mail address can be harvested from many sources and hten sold to
the SPAM senders on a CD. Some of the more likely resources for
harvesting are:
Your own e-mail server.
Your own web site where you listed your e-mail address and not hiddent
it from Spambots.
A mel form where your mail address is behind the viewable page, and not
reserved on the web server.
Any web site form where you have to enter a valid e-mail address.
How to get rid if it? Its too late now.
How to prevent it for the future (May take a year or more from today).
Create a junk mail account on your current server, Gmail.com, or any
free mail server. Use that address for any time you have to use a real
e-mail address. This one is easy to trash all unwanted messages.
Later, for wanted messages go to the original web site and update your
e-mail address to your preferred address.
If you have a web site your e-mail address must be hidden from the
Spambots with a "script".
If your web site has a contact form your e-mail address must be
contained within the script on the server, and the server directory must
have access permissions set to only allow you to write and your web page
script to send data to the server.
Michael G
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