Is there anything you can do if your e-mail is spoofed?

Question

I opened my inbox today only to find more that 1700 new e-mails -- most of which are returned by mail delivery systems as either undeliverable, or SPAM. Someone is using different usernames on my domain name, and sending out SPAM. I use this e-mail account for work, and I am worried about two things:
1. My real, outgoing e-mails will be blocked because my domain name will end up on a SPAM blocked list.
2. I won't be able to find incoming mail that I actually want because of the sheer volume of returned mail that is in my inbox from the SPAMMER who has spoofed my e-mail.

Is there anything I can do to stop this? I don't want to change my domain name because it is connected to my business.

Thanks for anyone's help.

Answer 1

I highly recommend running your domain name through:



http://www.dnsstuff.com/



They will tell you if there is anything wrong with the way your domain is set up. In particular, you should have a SPF record set up.



Stopping spam is a continuous problem. I also highly recommend getting and using Spambayes:



http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/



Since I started using it, I have had almost no spam.

Answer 2

I don't know what you can do about the potential of being blocked, but I'd suggest you put up some SPAM filters on your own email account to divert the bounces away from your inbox. Try to find a common string in the bounces that doesn't come up in your real email. Because no string is ever guaranteed to be 100% unique, the longer the string, the better.



Good luck.

Answer 3

Contact your internet service provider.