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Domain name hijacked to send spam

Author:

John Brand

Date:

Tuesday, 5th Dec 2006 12:16

Views:

4,295 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)

Category:

Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce

URL:

http://www.freepint.com/go/b83277

Hi,

Our domain is being spoofed in e-mail headers to send spam. Judging from the failure notices we receive the volume must be quite significant. The actual e-mail sender addresses used are frequently nonsensical (eqgxz@.....) , as are the titles and e-mail bodies. Originating servers appear to be mainly Korean, with some US.

A 2000 thread in the Bar suggested a couple of labour-intensive (and not very effective) possibilities such as identifying and approaching the culprits' ISPs - fine if there aren't several senders constantly moving around.

I suspect this is a depressingly common problem. Does anyone know if technology has moved on since 2000, to produce an effective remedy?

Best wishes,

John

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•	Domain name hijacked to send spam
	Hi, Our domain is being spoofed in e-mail headers to send spam. Judging from the failure notices we receive the ...

John Brand

05/12/06 12:16

83277

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	We have experienced the same, and did not find any other solution than just to ignore the case. However, some ...

Reino R.

08/12/06 20:46

84216

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	Our domain name too has been 'hijacked' by some heavy spammers, with the results of getting dozens of bounced mails ...

WisdOMbooks

08/12/06 19:17

84202

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	Unfortunately there is nothing you can do other than do nothing. "Hijack" is an emotive term to use for this. The ...

Ian Savell

09/12/06 17:39

84485

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	To continue with Ian Savells excellent advice, we found that whilst we ignored anything not sent to a specific user, ...

Paul Bradney

13/12/06 11:13

85289

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	For small businesses, this hijacking is a major problem and it exposes the www to overloading because of the volume ...

Denis Antony

12/12/06 15:58

85121

•	Re: Domain name hijacked to send spam
	Hijacking domain details is fairly easy, since the registration information is publicly available, and only a little imagination ...

stuart

14/12/06 22:05

85637