I'm receiving a great deal of emails saying

Undelivered.... blah..... postmaster blah....
returned to sender blah

Mostly to email addresses on my domain but not to my personal address.

When I research one, opening the attachments in a hex editor, they are adverts for making my wanger bigger or to make it harder for longer, or for share information to make me enough money that someone could be employed keeping my wanger bigger for me.

Can anybody put my mind at rest and confirm that these are spam directed at me, not someone using my email account to SPAM others.

I get bursts of them everynow and then,
I think others on here get them aswell.
Perhaps the word has got around that kit car builders need help in that area.

Been getting lots of them lately (50/day). Somebody aquiring e-mail addresses off here maybe?

Perhaps you've visited sites like this:

NOT WORK SAFE

Admit it lads

I have been receiving these for quite a while (before joining this forum), but have never bothered (or dared in case of viruses) opening to investigate, now I know it's to make my janglies a bit bigger I might take them up on it!!

and I have never visited xnxx (it's definitely not my homepage??? )

in all seriousness, does anyone know a way of stopping them?

[Edited on 16/11/06 by worX]

[Edited on 16/11/06 by worX]

Sounds like one of two things -- either one of the machines in your domain has been turned into a spam bot by a trojan or your mail acount has been hijacked.

(1) do a virus sweep with a decent AV program.

(2) Put a spam fillter in place -- most decent ISPs have good spam filltering in place but if the mail into your domain comes straight from your domain hosting companies mail server it won't go through it.
For a Windows PC the K9 spam filter is by far the best, and Thunderbird mail client has its own junk fillter built in.

URls for K9

home/download
http://keir.net/k9.html

review http://email.about.com/cs/winspamreviews/gr/k9.htm

quote:

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Originally posted by britishtrident
Sounds like one of two things -- either one of the machines in your domain has been turned into a spam bot by a trojan or your mail acount has been hijacked.

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Basically someone is spoofing from your domain. You have a catch all which setup so that anything@yourdomain.com gets forwarded back to your address. The undelivered stuff are peoples spam filters bouncing it back or simply invalid email addresses. You can stop the catch all email address but there is little you can do about the spoofing.

HTH
Jon

Confirm what Jon has said, someone is spoofing your account, just been talking to my webmaster about this after I got a junk email from vk@furorecars.co.uk - ie I was sending junk mail to myself!!!

Apparently there is a solution
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/spf.html
Unfortunately it will work only if you have something called SPF which you don't get with cheap hosting
Other than that all you can do is assure people that you're not sending them junk mail, apparently spoofing an account is easy to do, all they need is your email addy!

The whole junk mail/viagra/inflate your boobs/enlarge your wanger thing really, I mean REALLY
ANNOYS ME
You can guarantee it's the same scrounging useless to**ers that seem to be put on the planet specifically to spoil things for everyone else