Re: FN-FORUM: Someone is using my email address for spam purposes

date posted 30th April 2007 14:04

Hey, if you have a contact form or anything like that on your site
they could be using that, but if it is going to subscriebsr as
well..... Someone may have got into any kind of database/store where
those email addresses are. As to stopping it... Take a look at the
security of your form/database etc...

On 30 Apr 2007, at 11:48, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> Hi....
>
>
> We have a project website running alongside our design agency,
> which is a
> website for women in sport. Our email addresses are set to the same
> as the
> domain name. [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Somebody is using my email address in particular and other email
> addresses
> @domain.com to send out spam email. Because we have a large
> database of
> subscribers to the website, those also seem to be receiving spam
> and it says
> it comes from our domain.
>
> Of course we don't send out spam email, but I need to sort this
> asap because
> otherwise it'll give us a bad name. Who do I approach? The domain name
> provider? The server providers?
>
> And how the heck did this happen....??? Does anyone have any ideas,
> I would
> really appreciate some input if there is somebody out there who
> knows!!!
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Gina
>
>
>
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