Serious Spam

Claims it's from [e-mail]

[vincevincevince]

For the last few days I've had thousands of failure notices heading my way. Looking at the emails, they are Loan Application adverts.

I first thought I'd been hacked, but looking at the headers although it says 'from mydomain.TLD' the following IP address is not mine, nothing like mine, and nowhere near it.

The "From" header is of the form "From: Christian-Name Surname <[e-mail]>"

Received: from mydomain.TLD ([123.NOT.MY_.IP_])
by somesoftware (version$) with ESMTP id i23424SOMEID;
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:55:14 GMT
message-id: <SOMEID$3cb6b410$f6cc7ac3@CAZZ>
From: "Christan-Name Surname" <[e-mail]>

My question is whether there is anything I can do about this. The advertised domain's IP is in China. I know I can just send them all to /dev/null - but it sucks having my name drawn through the mud.

[ronin]

Yeah, it sucks, I agree. This happened to me in February 2005 - I was getting in excess of six hundred Delivery Failed notices a day... and those were only the responses to the spam emails being sent in my name that weren't getting through.

I configured the control panel on my webhosting account to send any email which wasn't addressed to my handful of official [e-mail] to the black hole.

[vincevincevince]

Glad to hear I'm not alone in this. I'm thinking that if these are just the bounces, then my domain must be at the top of at least 10 times as many spam emails.