Domain Email stolen?

[doofer]

I'm having a few hundred 'Returned Mails' from a domain I own, the actual Webspace is hosted by Nildram but the email forwarding is by 123, who do I need to get in touch with to try sort this out?

A while back some Russian guy wanted to buy the domain name and was told no, then he started emailing me a lot, eventually threatening 'lots of problems' if I did not transfer ownership of the domain name...not sure if they are connected as it was a good while before any problems arose but it's the only thing I can think of.

Getting kind of narked with the amount of returned spam emails everytime I open Thunderbird

TIA for any help/advice!

 

[Moredhel]

Sounds like a spammer is using your address as the reply-to / from headers. Meaning that bounces go to your address. Not much you can do about that really, other than make sure that you have adequate spam protection.

You could try and find the original source from the headers in the bounce, but chances are they're open relays in the third world or the middle of asia.

 

[monkeysmith]

Disable catch all emails, that should stop most of it. Thats where you are getting your problems. This may not be down to the Russian, it is a common method spammers use as it is hard to stop.

The hosting company I work for has disabled the use of catch all email accounts due to the amount of spam received this way.

 

[doofer]

Disable catch all emails, that should stop most of it. Thats where you are getting your problems. This may not be down to the Russian, it is a common method spammers use as it is hard to stop.

The hosting company I work for has disabled the use of catch all email accounts due to the amount of spam received this way.

Thanks a load! This has sorted it out sweet