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Spam using my own email address

by kah22
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Hi Guys I need some advice.

I'm getting on top of my spam with the help of 0Spam.com a free untility that's great at cutting out spam - well worth downloading. There is one difficulty though

Some of the spam artists who have got hold of my email address are spaming me with my own address!! One of my main address is kevin at abcwritersnetwork.co.uk and I'm now starting to get 'invites' and the like from my own address, and I don't know how to deal with them.

Thunderbird is my mail program but I can't very well choose to mark emails coming from myself as junk so can anyone tell me how I can nuke these messages.

And a Spam Free New Year to all
  • Profile picture of the author sjkstone
    Do you use a free email address or your own domain. I found that free email addresses are bad for spam. The only spam that I get from my domain addresses is "can I help your SEO" stuff but that is irregular and almost none.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      kah, I get those too..got one today, in fact. They are so annoying!

      look at the full headers..(Click "view" and then "headers" and then select "full") you'll see an IP address. If your hosting account has some sort of CPanel, use the IP deny function and enter the IP address of the offending spammer
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    • Profile picture of the author kkid
      Originally Posted by skygodmega View Post

      yah, I got those using my email address promoting Viagra products
      Hee..Hee.. I got the same too.. it was from my yahoo email.
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  • Profile picture of the author Valdor Kiebach
    If it is your domain and you have cpanel do this:
    in cpanel click the 'email authentication' option in the email section.
    Enable SPF.
    SPF

    SPF will specify which machines are authorized to send email from your domain(s). This means that only mail sent through this server will appear as valid mail from your domain(s) when the SPF records are checked.
    It should be filled in with your details already.
    Click 'update' at the bottom of the page.

    What you are suffering from is 'domain spoofing' and enabling SPF should help reduce this.
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    • Profile picture of the author scoobywow
      Originally Posted by Valdor Kiebach View Post

      If it is your domain and you have cpanel do this:
      in cpanel click the 'email authentication' option in the email section.
      Enable SPF.


      It should be filled in with your details already.
      Click 'update' at the bottom of the page.

      What you are suffering from is 'domain spoofing' and enabling SPF should help reduce this.
      I am having the same issue. Where about in Cpanel is 'email authentication' as having trouble finding it.

      Regards Roger
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  • Profile picture of the author acreativetouch
    Originally Posted by kah22 View Post

    Hi Guys I need some advice.

    I'm getting on top of my spam with the help of 0Spam.com a free untility that's great at cutting out spam - well worth downloading. There is one difficulty though

    Some of the spam artists who have got hold of my email address are spaming me with my own address!! One of my main address is kevin at abcwritersnetwork.co.uk and I'm now starting to get 'invites' and the like from my own address, and I don't know how to deal with them.

    Thunderbird is my mail program but I can't very well choose to mark emails coming from myself as junk so can anyone tell me how I can nuke these messages.

    And a Spam Free New Year to all
    I had someone using my e-mail address to spam others from spam I was getting. I finally had someone sending me all kinds of viruses.....thank G-d I have a mac and the viruses were PC only. I had to delete and re-write e-mail accounts in order to stop it. I still get some spam in my old e-mail addresses but it's not as much.

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  • Profile picture of the author kah22
    Some great tips, many thanks guys

    Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author Shadi
    spam ohh, I signed out onetime for a lead, and I am receiving hundreds of emails on my 2nd email address, all credit trash.
    But my main address is not getting any thank god
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  • Profile picture of the author scoobywow
    I am getting emails from my own domain names promoting this, that and the other in fact generally 10-12 per day.

    I tried looking for SPF (email authentication) in the email section of cpanel but I cannot find it and it is more than irritating to receive these spoof emails and well, for my customers to get them as well just undermines the trust I try so hard to build. Blocking IP doesn't help really as they use different IPs for every message.

    - Can anybody help?

    Regards Roger
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