E-mail, chat, & VoIP : Russian Company Using my Address
It usually goes away in a few weeks
by johnbiest - 4/14/06 8:07 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacI'm assuming you have gone through the normal protections - changed your password, firewall, turn off your computer when not in use, etc. If that hasn't stopped the email, it's like you have heard from a few others - someone is just using your email address in their header. They don't have to access your account or anything else to do this. You can usually check with your ISP to see how much mail has been sent using your account. I'll bet you'll find nothing.
Same thing happened to me. The best sounding advice I got was to put my email address (listed on my website) inside a Java box so crawler programs couldn't read it (but humans could). Before I learned how to do it, the emails had stopped (about 3 weeks).
Hope this helps (helps you feel better, anyway. I can't solve your problem.)
Russian Company using email address
by xxgmbxx - 4/14/06 9:34 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacAbout one year ago I kept receiving spam from over seas. Since I use Adelphia for my email, I contacted them about it. There was nothing they can do to help but they were upset about it. Today the problem is corrected by changing my email address. If you change your email address and notify those who are important it will be like a new start.
Hey guys, try this, so you will know how easy...
by Gakada - 4/14/06 10:43 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by Potomacthey get and use your email address...
create new mail account (in outlook express or other)
put ANY name, ANY email address, ANY Incoming POP, do not entered any password, enter your real ISP as the Outgoing SMTP..
Now create a new mail, Use the NEW Account in the From: field ... then put your real address in the TO: field .(its a test .. so you need to send it to yourself) .. click send .. and wait..
You will get that email ... eventhough you know that email account is fake..
So anyone who have your email address can use it in the From: field.
Ouch. You know a Few Years ago I once got a Bunch of Emails
by gopherit912 - 4/14/06 12:58 PM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacThat weren't for me. Truth be told I didn't know what to do so I didn't do anything. Well there was a time when I couldn't get access to a Computer all that easily so Yahoo Deleted me. I was thinking oh well, Had hardly any Use for it anyways. Well a While Later Yahoo gave me back my Email address saying there was some sort of Mix Up on one of their lists. All My Contacts were there but all of my Messages were Missing. My Inbox was completely Clean and I haven't gotten a Single Piece of Spam since.
Well as for solving the Problem you could always create another Email but that isn't exactly clean because that means you have to Import all your Contacts, any Websites you signed up for with it you have to change, and then you have to tell everyone that was on your Contact list that you have Changed Email Addresses. That can be a Pain I know. I recently Signed up for Gmail and had to tell everyone that I changed my Main Email to something else.
But someone did post another Solution. A Couple actually. You can Filter it so it doesn't bother you or you can get any sub accounts deleted. Probably the First Option though because the Second one is Assuming there are any Sub Accounts.
Well C'ya around the CNET Crowd.
Russian Company Using E-mail Address
by viclud - 4/15/06 12:03 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacI have recently had an increasing number of messages on the server for an alternative e-mail address of mine. The drift of all them all is a supossed problem with delivery of some message or another. I operate a program that allows me to preview messages on the server - the content of every one of these messages is 'rubbish', as used by spammers to try to avoid AV programs. I delete them all on the server, so they don't get into my machine.
Viclud
A Program
by gopherit912 - 4/15/06 1:56 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using E-mail Address by vicludI see. Actually I've never heard of a Program like this. Can you tell me a bit more or at least give me a name?
Blocking that address is easy
by DarCLew2 - 4/15/06 5:09 PM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacI had similar problems with hotmail.com, aol.com @ yahoo.com. There is an options page for yahoo & hotmail and what I put in for a blocked site is the end of the email: user@hotmail.com.ru and put .ru in blocked sites and look carefully as to how you wish to set it up. In the control panel, the same can be done there, but it would be your screenname@your-isp.ru/ I had found a site that lists all countries endings at:
http://www.eubank-web.com/William/Webmaster/c-codes.htm
Mine was outdated but this is not. I had problems with cn, nl,and a few others and they are listed as China, Netherlands etc.
Cannot be stopped
by tucker_india - 4/17/06 10:53 AM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacAlTheEldr is right, this cannot be stopped. And it has nothing to do with your email account or password or even your email address.
Think of it like this: you can send a piece of snail mail to someone, and you could write ANY address in the corner for the return address. Email is exactly like that. With a simple mail program, you can put any email address you want as the sender.
I receive all email sent to my domain name, and often get mail bounced back to email addresses that don't even exist. For example: (substituted "mydomain.com" for my domain)
VivianStory@mydomain.com
MarthaChen@mydomain.com
RandiFriedman@mydomain.com
TerriSalazar@mydomain.com
These accounts do not exist with my webhost, nor do they need to exist. All the emails were hocking cheap software. SPAMmers at work - and who knows how many thousands of emails were sent that did not bounce back to me.
Report to ISP
by batavier - 4/17/06 3:36 PM In reply to: Russian Company Using my Address by PotomacIf you have a copy of such e-mail, you may want to send it to "abuse@yourISP" with explanation of your story.
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