|
Posted by andre on June 19, 2005, 8:02 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Yesterday I noticed that some spammers had stolen my email address
(info(at)aguntherphotography(dot)com) and used as a return address for
spam emails. Now i got all these people upset at me.
What can I do? How can i prevent this from ever happen again?
The SPAM point to these two addresses:
http://psnfjtrsk3e.urchoise.com/
http://zndtelbywo.urchoise.com/
urchoise.com is registerd to a guy in rotterdam.
I hope they rott in hell for soiling my reputation.
--
----------------------------------
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
|
|
Posted by Bit Twister on June 19, 2005, 3:58 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:02:18 GMT, andre wrote:
> Yesterday I noticed that some spammers had stolen my email address
> (info(at)aguntherphotography(dot)com) and used as a return address for
> spam emails. Now i got all these people upset at me.
> What can I do?
You stop spam emails by deleting the email account.
email_usage_search_tag
> How can i prevent this from ever happen again?
1. Don't use it in web pages or a junk contact email address.
2. Munge it on Usenet where it shows up in the header of your post.
3. Tell everyone you give it to, to not store it in their address book
where viruses/malware can steal it.
4. Tell them to never send you a card/joke/info from a web site.
Just cut/paste and email it or just send the url to you.
5. Tell them not to give the email address to anyone and if anyone
wants it, to send their address to you and you will send them the
address with the usage rules.
6. Use different browser for surfing and verify your email address
is not in the browser config settings.
7. Use a search engine to verify something like andri_gunthr@ is not
already used by someone at anytime when picking an email name.
8. Get throwaway email addresses for any online ebusiness
9. Use different semi-permanent email addy for each bank you do business with.
10. Different addy for friends and family. That way you a chance to
figure out who let the address out.
11. I got rid of the Microsoft OS so half of the problem of leaks goes
away and I will not catch malware to compromise someone elses address.
12. Check if your ISP account/profile to see if there is a check box
about sharing your info amoung their business partners.
13. Use a seperate email application where you can turn off java and
javascript and email client does not call other apps based on what
might be in an html email.
|
|
Posted by Jack on June 20, 2005, 1:03 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> Yesterday I noticed that some spammers had stolen my email address
> (info(at)aguntherphotography(dot)com) and used as a return address
> for spam emails.
It's a troll. If it knows how to crosspost and to munge, then the
question is bullshit.
--
Jack.
|
|
Posted by andre on June 20, 2005, 4:50 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> andre wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I noticed that some spammers had stolen my email address
>> (info(at)aguntherphotography(dot)com) and used as a return address
>> for spam emails.
>
>
> It's a troll. If it knows how to crosspost and to munge, then the
> question is bullshit.
>
No Troll no BS. Crossposting is easy with thunderbird. I am just
dissapointed that my ISP and webhosting provider (both yahoo) doesn't
care. They don't seem to be interested. I deleted the email account
immidiately, but I am afraid the damage to my reputation has been done
already. It is very frustrating. I had my contacts page blocked from
search engines and somehow I was not counting on people being such
A**H**ES. Its just frustrating.
Andre
--
----------------------------------
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
|
|
Posted by danny burstein on June 20, 2005, 5:47 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
>No Troll no BS. Crossposting is easy with thunderbird. I am just
>dissapointed that my ISP and webhosting provider (both yahoo) doesn't
>care. They don't seem to be interested.
Unfortunately there's not a thing the ISPs can do. It's just as easy for
someone to forge a return address on e-mail (in this case, yours...) as it
is to scribble your ex-girfriend's name on an envelope you drop in a
mailbox.
In other words, the fake mail doesn't come from their servers. The most
they can do for you is, if anyone complains, is send back a note saying
that you're not guilty of spamming and that some [expletive deleted] typed
in your username/domain.
Even though (in many of these cases) forging a return address or faking
the identity is a crime, none of the law enforcement types will usually
care about backtracking.
Rest assured that almost, almost, everyone out there understands about
this faked return-address issue, so while you may see some atutomated
bounceback, no one's going to attack you in return.
(well, there's probably some idiot or another somewhere).
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
|
| Similar Threads | Posted | | Web Form Spammers / Email Injection Spamming | September 15, 2005, 5:30 am |
| Regarding Email.. | October 14, 2005, 6:38 pm |
| How the hell is someone getting my email address? | July 15, 2005, 6:05 pm |
| Say hello to the Skype Trojan (sent via email) | October 22, 2005, 11:55 am |
| Spoofing "TO" Address in email | November 18, 2005, 5:16 pm |
| Re: Email and Blind copying | February 28, 2006, 11:24 am |
| Re: Email and Blind copying | February 28, 2006, 6:31 pm |
| Eblaster Email question | June 6, 2006, 9:14 am |
| Soon 2bx husband snooping in email | December 18, 2006, 12:00 pm |
| My first Attempted phish email....FOILED! | July 30, 2005, 4:34 pm |
|
XML site map