How to Stop E-mail Spam Spoofing?...

[Frank McMahon]

Outlooks 2003 does a great job of filtering out spam...very impressive.
However now I am getting spoofed spam, where the spammer uses my e-mail as
their return e-mail..leading to tons of bounce-backs to my account. Outlook
does not see it as spam, because it's just a bounce-back delivery problem.

Any suggestions? I know if I block it, if I even can, Outlook will also
block legitimate bounce-backs to me from incorrect addresses, which I almost
can live with to get rid of the huge slew of spoofed stuff.

Any help would be great...I went through the Microsoft support site but did
not see much about this problem. Thanks.

Frank

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Fight Spam
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spam/default.mspx

Help Safeguard Your Personal Information Online
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/spoof.mspx

Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect
yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=833786


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| Outlooks 2003 does a great job of filtering out spam...very impressive.
| However now I am getting spoofed spam, where the spammer uses my e-mail as
| their return e-mail..leading to tons of bounce-backs to my account. Outlook
| does not see it as spam, because it's just a bounce-back delivery problem.
|
| Any suggestions? I know if I block it, if I even can, Outlook will also
| block legitimate bounce-backs to me from incorrect addresses, which I almost
| can live with to get rid of the huge slew of spoofed stuff.
|
| Any help would be great...I went through the Microsoft support site but did
| not see much about this problem. Thanks.
|
| Frank

 

[buRford]

Outlooks 2003 does a great job of filtering out spam...very impressive.
However now I am getting spoofed spam, where the spammer uses my e-mail as
their return e-mail..leading to tons of bounce-backs to my account. Outlook
does not see it as spam, because it's just a bounce-back delivery problem.

Any suggestions? I know if I block it, if I even can, Outlook will also
block legitimate bounce-backs to me from incorrect addresses, which I almost
can live with to get rid of the huge slew of spoofed stuff.

Any help would be great...I went through the Microsoft support site but did
not see much about this problem. Thanks.

Frank

I'm not sure how to block it, without blocking them all... but just as a point of info,
many of the bounce-backs, are probably not from spammers... but from viruses/trojans of
people who have you in their address book. The virus tries to send itself to people,
using your address from that address book. Many mail servers block viruses, and bounce
them back to you... the *sender.*