Receiving Spam from my own email address

[DGriff]

Hi

I have a website and when someone leaves a comment i get it as an email. I get plenty of spam and block the senders. recently I have been receiving spam from my own email address but I dont want to block my own email address. Any ideas how to handle this spam from my own address? Thanks

 

[lawson_jl]

Your not recieving e-mail from yourself. The spam sender is spoofing your e-mail so it appears it's coming from you. If you look at the e-mail header you can see the real address it's coming from. This won't help anyway since it's comming from some zombie computer somewhere in the world that the owner of the PC doesn't know it's even sending. They got infected cause they wanted smileys in their e-mail or had to click to see the Olsen twins naked.

 

[Beyond]

Hi

I have a website and when someone leaves a comment i get it as an email. I get plenty of spam and block the senders. recently I have been receiving spam from my own email address but I dont want to block my own email address. Any ideas how to handle this spam from my own address? Thanks

Stop downloading Warez and Pr0n!

 

[bomberboysk]

Hi

I have a website and when someone leaves a comment i get it as an email. I get plenty of spam and block the senders. recently I have been receiving spam from my own email address but I dont want to block my own email address. Any ideas how to handle this spam from my own address? Thanks

I have a similar problem also, no idea how the heck its happening either. I get alot of "message undeliverable" and "Message cannot be sent" from my own domain, i have my only account(admin@) as a catchall so i get everything, but someone is spoofing the latter part of my email address(@bomberpage.com) with all sorts of front parts. I hate this so much, and it makes me super angry that we have all these idiots out there that are trying to make money spoofing your email addresses.

 

[XCtechST]

It would be nice if some of you veterans on this forum actually posted comments that addressed an issue rather than flaming the newbies. Just a thought...

As for the issue at hand, there is something that can be done about it, depending on how much control over your e-mail domain you have:

There is something called an SPF(Sender Policy Framework) record that mail servers use to authenticate the server that sent a message against a record that states which servers on the internet should be allowed to send mail for a given domain. You can find out more here: http://www.openspf.org/Introduction

If your e-mail is hosted at a web-host like Register.com, GoDaddy.com or DomainsLikeMagic.com, you can login to your domain record manager and add the record. In addition, if you have a mail server, you can have it set to allow only certain types of incoming mail, keep it from being anonymously relayed from to send spam, etc. Unfortunately, some servers on the net still do not use these SPF records to validate senders or any other authentication, which renders them useless. Thankfully, larege ISPs and domains like aol.com will bounce mail sent from an unauthorized address or server.