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Hackers are using people's email addresses
The thing nowadays, is that although my email account wasn't hacked. They're using valid email addresses to use as the From in spam as well as to hack other web sites - just in case each system checks to see if it's real.
I imagine there's nothing much that can be done?
MarkJFine wrote:The thing nowadays, is that although my email account wasn't hacked. They're using valid email addresses to use as the From in spam as well as to hack other web sites - just in case each system checks to see if it's real.
An admin can set a validation with the server so when the email client goes to address it before a send (HELO), the server can see if that address had permission to send. The silly part is that it doesn't stop it from proceding. It just notes it in the headers. I also have a setting in my DNS record.
Part of my spam script also looks to see if something with my email address came from the server IP it's supposed to come from. I also ignore bounce messages from servers that still respond to spams like that (they should really stop that). All that stuff goes to /dev/nul (not even Junk) unless it's valid.
So for your basic eejit on the information superhighway (say, oh, me), there's nothing much that can be done, then. ;)
Not for you, personally, but whoever you have your email with should be able to do these things if they're not in place already.
