'Borrowed' e-mail address.

[Gordy Hall]

For at least 4 months there has been up to 500 spams a day sent out from somewhere that uses an address I had on one of my web sites.

I have run all the programs to look for viruses and bugs, and they find nothing. These mailings are usually sent out when my computers are all off.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop the flow of spam being returned to me, outside of giving up my domain name?

Thanks, Gordy

[Wiz Feinberg]

If you still own that Domain name and it is hosted somewhere, login to your CPanel, or control panel, email configuration, and configure all email addressed to that address to go to your blackhole, if one is provided by the hosting company, or bounce it with a message ":fail: no such account here."

Example:
Account named contact@mydomain.com is targeted by spammers.

In Cpanel > Email > Forwarders > Add Forwarder, create a new entry for contacts(@yourdomain.com) and set it to forward to either :blackhole or :fail: no such address here. Save the changes. You will never again see a spam email, or bounced spam email, addressed to that account name.

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