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Admin
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Location: Stafford, UK
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 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: Anyone getting Spam? |
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Hi
This morning I have received loads of bounced emails, where the original email seems to have originated from here.
Anyone had any through? Any noticeable pattern?
Apologies for this.
All the best
Keith |
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gritsop
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Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: Ekali, Athens - Greece
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john 33_16v
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I was getting about 400 a day bounced back to one of my domains a few weeks ago. Some scumbag was sending out spam about Kittens or something using dozens of aliases ending in my domain name as the 'sender'.
The recipients spam filters bounced most of them back to me, as my domain was set up to receive anything@mydomain.com. Reset the incoming mail to only a couple of contacts, and the rest goes to trashcan.
The bouncebacks have dried up at my end, but there may still be hundreds of emails bouncing around in cyberspace with my domain on!
John
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Alfasud
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| No spam here. I'll keep you informed. |
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bobbber
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: |
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No more than normal (about 20 a day).
Bob.
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BILL
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: |
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paddy granger
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Just make sure you don't post your email address anywhere on the internet, such as in guestbooks. This is how 'Robots' pick them up, and you get bombarded with junk.
My mum counted 8000 junk mails in 2 weeks in her account, now she has to change her address - makes you sick.  |
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Admin
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Location: Stafford, UK
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Cheers. I was worried someone had found a way to hack phpBB to send out emails in bulk.
All the best
Keith |
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16v_sportwagon
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Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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Location: Preston
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Cheers. I was worried someone had found a way to hack phpBB to send out emails in bulk.
All the best
Keith |
You can bet if there was this wouldn't be the only board affected, and an update would have been issued by now. I've certainly not had notification of any updates in the last few days, you are subscribed for update notifications aren't you  As long as you've installed the latest version (2.0.17) it should be ok.
SPAM with spoofed email addresses is just something that comes with owning your own domains  I had a whole batch earlier this week and last week on a couple of my domains.
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