Spammer Spoofing My domain

what to do?

[bigjohnt]

I've started recieving TONS of postmaster undeliverables to various false addresses at my domain. I can stop the flow, by not forwarding fallthrough addresses to my main box, thats not the issue.
I DO NOT do spam. Never have, never will.

Any idea of if I am in any danger legally here? I am the victim.

I've already contacted my hosting service.
Any advice appreciated.

[olwen]

I've had this happen to me. From what I could tell of the messages they were sent from PCs all over the world that had had trojans installed on them.

It's my understanding that there is very little chance you'll be penalised by anyone worth worrying about for this sort of activity.

[kwngian]

Good article. However, I am quite upset that sitepoint listed the wrong spamcop site, one with a one page ad attempting to sell their software.

The correct spamcop site is a dot net not a dot com. The original spamcop allows you to report spam via them, they will then send out abuse report on your behalf and not reveal your email address.

Once the spammer sends too often, their IP will get blacklisted in many of the mail servers all over the world that uses their RDNS list.

The spamcop dot com does nothing of that but gets all the credit by selling you a commercial software. A real discredit to the original intend of the spamcop dot net owner.

P.S. I have no relation with spamcop dot net but I am their regular user.

[bigjohnt]

These are not from trojans, but from a spammer with a .RU domain, beyond our jurisdiction.
All spam, selling fake Rolexes.

I am sure Spamcop will do the "right" thing and ban my domain. I've gone rounds with them before on behalf of another spoofed client.

[kwngian]

Don't think your domain will get banned at all if it is not listed in the spam messages.

Your domain is probably in the sender's address but that can be spoofed and most of the savvy users will know about that by now.

So chances of getting angry emails are minimal. Chance of spamcop banning you is virtually zero.

You should join spamcop as a free subscriber and just report those spams. Ultimately, the source where they send the spam from will be blacklisted.

One blacklisted, your problem will go away automatically.