Adobe Community: my email address has been hijacked!

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1. JoeyD1978,

Jan 2, 2009 8:16 AM in reply to phi nupe

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You're not actually getting email from yourself, the spammer has most likely just spoofed the "from" address.

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2. John T Smith,

Jan 2, 2009 9:00 AM in reply to phi nupe

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Not that this has anything at all to do with DW, but this is very a common trick by spammers to get their garbage past spam filters, since most are set to let the user pass through

I receive mail from "myself" at home, and at work with a work email address

I also receive bounced mail where my address has been used as the return by the spammer

There is nothing you can do to stop this type of spam... but you can preview and delete before downloading to your computer from your server (for many types of servers anyway) by installing a product such as Mailwasher http://www.firetrust.com/

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3. phi nupe,

Jan 2, 2009 9:17 AM in reply to phi nupe

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Well, I know it isn't me, and I avoid embedding my address in web pages, but I'm concerned about getting through to my contacts. I've started routing it to a web-based account just for filtering purposes.

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4. JoeyD1978,

Jan 2, 2009 9:35 AM in reply to phi nupe

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It doesn't have access to your contacts. You haven't been "hacked".

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5. PHDnBS,

Jan 2, 2009 10:38 AM in reply to phi nupe

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There are ways of avoiding this through the use of pictures and Captchas. Unfortunatly, the damage has allready been done. Joey's right, the good news is, your account has (most likely)not been breached. Your email address is simply in the wrong hands now.

Rastabloke
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6. Newsgroup_User,

Jan 5, 2009 1:52 AM in reply to phi nupe

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PHDnBS wrote:
> There are ways of avoiding this through the use of pictures and Captchas.
> Unfortunatly, the damage has allready been done. Joey's right, the good news
> is, your account has (most likely)not been breached. Your email address is
> simply in the wrong hands now.

Its also likely that they have guessed your email address. They have
programs that harvest domain names and add random names to create the
email addresses. They do the same when sending them too. When I used to
have a catch all address spam was addressed to the most random email
addresses possible. I had to turn off my catch all account as I was
getting hundreds every 10 minutes. I don't recommend using catch all's.

Dooza

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