Re: Hijacked domain

From: Robert Day <rpday_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Tue 25 Oct 2005 09:57:05 -0500

It happens to all of us. I guess that you are seeing
emails bounce back to you as the apparent sender when
you didn't send them in the first place.
As soon as your email address falls into the hands of a
spammer, they can falsely represent emails as having been
sent by you, by me, or by any of the millions of email
addresses on their lists.
There's not much you can do about it other than state that
it wasn't you (as the rest of the headers might prove) should
your ISP complain. Just keep one or two of them on your
computer if you need to formally deny it later. It's such a
widespread activity by spammers that I very much doubt that your
domain will be blacklisted.

Or, do you have a web site with an insecure form script on it.
Spammers know how to hijack your form and force it to send
out emails via your hosting company if you don't use the
latest version e.g. formmail.pl version 1.92 that is configured
correctly. See here - http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html.

Rob
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