someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

[James Knott]

Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> On 9-Aug-08, at 7:56 PM, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Robert Brockway wrote:
>>
>>> It's an RFC 2821/2822 requirement.  A bounce message is a very 
>>> important part of SMTP so the MTAs sending the bounces aren't 
>>> generally at fault. Without
>>
>> *sigh* This is a good reason not to write a technical email while being
>> distracted.
>>
>> In general the sender of a bounce is doing nothing wrong, however if 
>> the MTA accepts the email before verifying the receipient it can 
>> become a source of backscatter spam so in this case the sender of the 
>> bounce probably is at fault.
>
> pretty much what I figured. The bounce is legitimate.
>
> The most interesting thing is I'm getting about 500 bounces a day for 
> the last 3 days. Each one from a different ip address. This means that 
> there are at least 1500 machines in this botnet sending the spam. 
> Scary when you think about it. And that doesn't even include all the 
> emails that are actually getting through to their intended victim.
>

Here's an article about the problem:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6752853.stm
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