Spoofing is a widespread issue on the internet as is viruses and spam .
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to control and eliminate such
occurrences and no web hosting company is immune to this
problem. For information about e-mail spoofing, please refer to http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Email-Spoofing.html.
You can try to locate the origin of this spam through
spam e-mail full headers:
1. Get the spam full headers
b)
If you are using Outlook, double-click to open the message you wish
to check, then go to 'View' and 'Options'. Then right-click and copy the
headers inside "Internet Headers" box
2. Go to http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml
to sign up; log in information will be e-mailed to your e-mail address
3.
Once logged in "Click on "Report Spam" tab
4. Paste the full headers in the
text box
5. Click "Process Spam" button
6. An e-mail address will be
generated; you can use this e-mail address to report a spam abuse
Here are some tips in minimizing spam/junk mail to your account or having
your email account spoofed (spammers may send mail in such a way that the e-mail
appears to have been sent from your email address):
Web Forms vs Displaying Your
E-mail Address
1. Don't publish your email address
on your web pages but rather use web forms to receive email. If you wish to
publish your email address, place it in an image. This way web crawlers cannot
spider through your web pages and extract coding to get your email address
OR
2. If you prefer not to implement a
web form the alternative is to display your e-mail address in such a way that
web crawlers would be unable to crawl it. This can be accomplished by displaying
your e-mail address via a javascript similar to the example below (replace
yourname and domain.com accordingly):
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
emailE=('yourname@' + 'domain.com')
document.write(
'<A href="mailto:' + emailE + '">'
+ emailE + '</a>'
)
</SCRIPT>
<NOSCRIPT>
<em>Email address protected by JavaScript.<BR>
Please enable JavaScript to contact me.</em>
</NOSCRIPT>
Safe-Guarding Your
E-mail Address From The Public
3. Don't submit your email address
to public forums, mailing lists, newsletters, etc. Similarly don't give out your
business card that contain your email address to contests or draws as often the
info. get submitted to marketing campaigns where any number of individuals may
have access to your e-mail address information.
4.
For POP clients, filter email into a "junk" or "spam" folder which can be
configured to be auto-deleted.
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