Spammers

[.Flyer]

[quote=tvrgit]...or using your server as a mail relay?

:yikes:[/quote]
No, I don't *think* that's happening. Here's part of the header from one:

[quote=]Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
Received: from mail pickup service by xxx.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:31:09 +0100
thread-index: AcW1ITWkUMj7s98gRWm/YS0gfpGwDQ==
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Cc:
Keywords: mspop3connector."[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>mspop3connector.
Message-ID: <000001c5b521$35a437b0$[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:31:08 +0100
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: "Internet Mail Delivery" <postmaster@l-daemon>
Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed
To: <Andrew>
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Exchange 2000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report;
report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="Boundary_(ID_DlAi4xpLOFT1rFvU6Tso0g)"
X-Mailmap-To: [e-mail]
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Status:
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.326
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2005 09:31:09.0312 (UTC) FILETIME=[35EBC800:01C5B521]

--Boundary_(ID_DlAi4xpLOFT1rFvU6Tso0g)
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-language: en-US

--Boundary_(ID_DlAi4xpLOFT1rFvU6Tso0g)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

--Boundary_(ID_DlAi4xpLOFT1rFvU6Tso0g)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from shaw_mailrouter-daemon.l-daemon by l-daemon
(Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004))
id <0IMJ00C5ELJNXY00@l-daemon>; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:11:47 -0600 (MDT)
Received: from www.moltumyr.com (www.moltumyr.com [209.180.63.65])
by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004))
with SMTP id <0IMJ00BDKLI1SC00@l-daemon>; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:11:47 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:11:40 -0800
From: Stella jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: Bravo
To: [e-mail]
Message-id: <MAILSENDERNG6BGTuAy9972933a@chitv>
X-UIDL: H#8!!<"("!VH5"!&*<!!
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Umail
Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="Boundary_(ID_2GOPUV8dgnO+6Ob96O9slg)"
X-MsgID: 1817AFC4.479872462367
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at saveentry
X-Credit: EFyru4t
X-Hash: 4WUyOMLdUCk9p36KCA8==
X-OriginalArrivalTime: Fri,
09 Sep 2005 02:11:40 -0800 FILETIME=[F0F18D86:53C62075][/quote]

And here's the text:
[quote=]Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: FW: Bravo
Sent: 09/09/2005 11:12

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

[e-mail] on 09/09/2005 10:31
The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
<l-daemon (shaw_mailrouter-daemon) #5.1.1 smtp;550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [e-mail]>[/quote]

assessors.net is one of my domain names; it is parked at DomainsNet who just do email forwarding. So, I think that the spammers are simply using the domain name as a return address. Bastard fuckers are now also using my main email address.

Any way of stopping this? I'm receiving approx. 100 return emails like this a day :(

[deckster]

Have you tried DomainsNet? They may be able to put in some kind of filter to catch these at source.

[.Flyer]

I haven't, but can't imagine they'd be interested in putting a filter on - it's also possible that some of the returned emails might actually be relevant to me ...

God, I hate spammers

[bga]

.Flyer said:

I haven't, but can't imagine they'd be interested in putting a filter on - it's also possible that some of the returned emails might actually be relevant to me ... God, I hate spammers

I had this with a couple of my domains. Fortunately they gave up after a couple of months.

[BliarOut]

Talking of spammers, who are the new kids on the block? There is a fresh bunch who have started to infiltrate Hotmail. Most annoying

>> Edited by BliarOut on Monday 12th September 11:45

[fish]

Had the very thing happen to me where spammers used my domain as the return address using random first names eg [e-mail] I was getting something like a few thousand an hour! from all round the world.

I dis collect them as my system was sent to forward unknown receipiants to a secretarys mail box. I had to bounce all the unknown names which atleast took the workload off my server.... Then I didn't really care.