[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: >Your email address has been "spoofed." I have 2 domains that have NO >outgoing email server at all and I get returns all the time. I just >ignore them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about this. Most >email servers can catch a fraudulent email address and bounce it.
There is one thing that can be done, at least if the emails are advertising something. Once when my domain was spoofed and I had to deal with around 20,000 bouncebacks over the course of a week, I was able to use WhoIs to track down the ISP of the pharmaceutical site being advertised. Don't go after the spammer -- you can probably never find it; go after the advertiser. They have to have some place for a person to contact in order to make their money -- so hit them there. Once I had the internet provider of the advertiser, I sent a nicely worded cease-and-desist letter claiming if they did not shut down the site, I would have to contact my lawyers to complete papers filing for fraudulent use of my corporate identity. Yeah, I don't know if such a thing exists, but pad it out with some legal mumbo jumbo and it sounded good. :) They shut down the advertiser's site. I still got bouncebacks for a while, but I was much more satisfied. :) -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
