Checked my e-mail when I got in & received 300 + messages, most of which were dumped by Norton into the Spam folder.Apart from the usual 'increase the size of your willy' & 'we need your bank details' Spam the majority were some form of message delivery failure, a few were failures to postings on yahoo groups.About half were apparently messages from my blueyonder address & the rest from weird names @medwayhandyman. Some were 'I'm out of the office' auto replies. None of the apparent failures are names in my address book.Any idea whats going on here?Can I limit the xxx@medwayhandyman variations?

Someone has spoofed your email address and is sending spam to other people pertending to be you. It's unlikely to be a virus or security breach. Have a read here > Can I limit the xxx@medwayhandyman variations?If you mean that you'd like to restrict the email addresses that you receive mail on (such that you don't receive emails addressed to randomaddress@medwayhandyman) then you need to ensure that your email-catch-all is turned off. I hope your hosting company have an easily navigable email management system.Have a look at I'm not afiliated to this company in any way other than being a satisfied customer. Reporting spam is free and just requires registration. There's some satisfaction in having spammers reported and the sites that they promote shut down.RegardsStuart

Completely OT Spam Attack?

Nov 07, 2007 21 Replies

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The Natural Philosopher 18 years ago

In my case (claranet) I control my own spam filters.

The point being that if they are at the ISP site you don't download the stuff and then reject it.

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David Hansen 18 years ago

On 8 Nov 2007 16:11:38 GMT someone who may be Huge wrote this:-

I'm entirely in agreement with you about this.

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