OT: EMail hacker help needed

[CJ]

Apparently some one at gandi.net has been hijacking email addresses to
spam people, and my home email is one of the addresses it went for.
Considering I'm getting the nasty grams from at least 12 pissed off
folks an hour, it's really irking me.

Does anyone know at all how to reroute my own email messages and to
remove my email address from some sort of hacky crappy spam ?

help?

C

 

[Jem Berkes]

Apparently some one at gandi.net has been hijacking email addresses to

spam people, and my home email is one of the addresses it went for.
Considering I'm getting the nasty grams from at least 12 pissed off
folks an hour, it's really irking me.

Does anyone know at all how to reroute my own email messages and to
remove my email address from some sort of hacky crappy spam ?

Some viruses these days will randomly forge the sender's address. Mine has
been used in the past too. There really isn't much you can do about this,
and it probably isn't even deliberately targetting you; spamming viruses
just harvest addresses and make forgeries, routinely.

If you get nasty letters from random people, either ignore them or tell
them to piss off.

 

[me]

Apparently some one at gandi.net has been hijacking email
addresses to spam people, and my home email is one of the
addresses it went for. Considering I'm getting the nasty
grams from at least 12 pissed off folks an hour, it's
really irking me.

Does anyone know at all how to reroute my own email
messages and to remove my email address from some sort of
hacky crappy spam ?

help?

C

If you're sure that you PC isn't compomised, ignore it -- it'll
pass.

J

 

[Roger Johansson]

Apparently some one at gandi.net has been hijacking email addresses to
spam people, and my home email is one of the addresses it went for.
Considering I'm getting the nasty grams from at least 12 pissed off
folks an hour, it's really irking me.

Does anyone know at all how to reroute my own email messages and to
remove my email address from some sort of hacky crappy spam ?

Once an email address is out there among spammers it is lost forever.
Unless you are extremely lucky the spam will continue to come in and
increase month by month. The only really good way to fix it is to get a
new mail address, tell your trusted friends the new address, and close
the old mail account.

To use a mail filter to filter out hundreds of spam messages every day is
not a good solution. It takes resources both from your own computer and
from the internet in general as all these messages travel trough the net
and slow it down.

 

[James A. Smith]

You can't do much about somebody getting your email address and faking it in
headers.

But you can add a whitelist filters to OE so you won't be bothered by spam
and people you don't know.

I made a help file to show people how to set them up in OE.

http://www.jastek.net/emailrulehelp.php

Hope this helps,

 

[jo]

But you can add a whitelist filters to OE so you won't be bothered by spam
and people you don't know.

I got spammed by God the other day.

I did. Really. I was a bit surprised.

 

[me]

I got spammed by God the other day.

I did. Really. I was a bit surprised.

You mean the "From:" was your own addy?

J

 

[Conor]

Apparently some one at gandi.net has been hijacking email addresses to
spam people, and my home email is one of the addresses it went for.
Considering I'm getting the nasty grams from at least 12 pissed off
folks an hour, it's really irking me.
[/QUOTE]
E-Mail those 12 stupid ****wits back and point out that the e-mails
never contain the originators real address, just one pulled from usenet
or wherever.

 

[CJ]

Thanks everyone. I'm going to look at the OE option too. I use Netscape
Mail, and unfortunately, my email address has been my business and
personal addy for nearly 10 years....way too many folks to contact if I
change it, but I am going to set up an autoresponder and see if that
doesn't feed back some of it.
Also, we hunted down the originating ISP and sent a few letters to the
server masters. The IT's at my webhost are going to see if they have a
solution too.

You guys n gals rock for taking time to answer this.

C

 

[James A. Smith]

What was he selling?

 

[jo]

What was he selling?

Dunno. I deleted Him on the server.

 

[James A. Smith]

Tho shall not delete GOD!

lol ok cool