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Undelivered: Failure: Failed

onedmc · 2003-09-16 21:11:31

I'm getting hundreds of Undelivered or failed messages being returned to non-existing users of my address. Of course the orignal message sent was a viagra message It looks like hundreds of people in our organisation are sending out thousands of adds for viagra. Of course we're not but it does look it's comming from us. Can…

16-09-2003 9:11pm

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onedmc

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I'm getting hundreds of Undelivered or failed messages being returned to non-existing users of my address. Of course the orignal message sent was a viagra message

It looks like hundreds of people in our organisation are sending out thousands of adds for viagra. Of course we're not but it does look it's comming from us.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here and if there is anything that I can do to stop it happening.

DMc

PS if this isn't the right place for this can you point me in the right direction.

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#2 16-09-2003 9:40pm

dahamsta

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Simply put, a spammer is spoofing your address to send his tat. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do.

adam

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#3 17-09-2003 1:14am

Cake Fiend

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You could try to get some of the recipients of these mails to send you the headers from them (and thus try to trace them back to whoever's actually sending them), but you're unlikely to get far ***.

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