MinJungKim.com Braindump v 6.0 Gah. I’m still doing this?

FUCK.Me.

Some asswipe just spoofed my domain address and sent a kajillion @minjungkim.com  email spam messages.

Someone please tell me how to fix this?  I’ve had my @minjungkim.com email addy for *years* now and would hate to have to kill it off because of this shit.

Lemme guess, they used a random string at the start of the email address, like ajtiaser@minjungkim.com to send it out, and maybe you have a catch-all so you’re getting getting automated “I’m on vacation” responses. Anyway, that’s what happened to me, and they’re spoofing your address.

There’s nothing you can do about it, other than removing a catch-all if you have one (that’s what I did, out of site out of mind). You don’t have to give up your address because of this, since the people you email will know it’s really you.

Yep, this has happened to me at rangelife.com. Here’s the good news — it happens to everyone. No one will blame you. And eventually, it will stop and they’ll pick on someone else.

Anyway, good to meet ya at Beach Blanet last week.

Cheers.

Richard beat me to the punch — I was going to comment with pretty much the same info. In some ways, it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened to you already, but I guess you can chalk it up to luck. I removed my “catch-all” alias but made sure to create aliases for some variations on my name in case someone tries to reach me but doesn’t quite get my address right (weskim vs. wesk vs. wkim, etc.).

Happened to me too — been going on for months. Unfortunately I use many third.party.domain.com@mydomain.com addresses to track spam, so I can’t just turn off my catch-all.

What Ben said.

Getting all the message failure emails is very annoying, but hopefully it will be brief. To empower myself ever so slightly while it was happening, I pulled the spam messages out of the server error emails(whenever possible) and would report em to spamcop. After a week or two it went away.

Never found an actual solution.. seems the common answers are “wait it out” or “kill the catch-all”.

I would say (not knowing if you have this amount of control or granularity) that if you identify the IP address(es) they’re coming from (at least to the domain level) you can block those and you’d likely stop some portion of the spam responses.