Some one mailed me with my own Domain?

[maurixius]

Hey Guys

I came across something really odd an suspicious!

I was checking my emails at yahoo mail, when I came across a email that was sent to me; from one of my Domains that I had Registered 2 days before.

My Domain:
Name: xeba.net Registered: Sept 11' 2010 ( 7 days ago )

Email sent to me:
From: "[email protected]" Date: Sep 13' 2010 ( 5 days ago )

The title said:
[email protected] September 43% OFF on Pfizer!

I clicked the title; the page was blank ( white ); text link said : enter here, or click here", which I did not!

Another odd thing:
it was going To: [email protected]

Can some one please explain this to me; how is it possible, and what should I do about it?


cheers,

 

[Wuoshi]

It's just a spammer that forged the senders domain. In a standard email-client (Outlook, Thunderbird) you can define the sending email-address, you can set any you want, you don't have to have access to the domain.

If you check what is called "full headers", you will see that it's not sent from your domain.

 

[Szise]

Yes, pharmacy, viagra spammers, I also received a mail message with my email address as sender.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Happens all the time, especially with those catch-all addesses and freebie emailsi. At first, it freaked me out because I thought someone had hacked my email.

I do wish that these email servers would set their systems NOT to allow the sender to change address headers.

What were they thinking?

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[DU]

You should be wary if you have hosting though. Some malicious scripters will take advantage of weaknesses in WP and Joomla etc. and actually use your host server.

Your hosting network provider would "usually" catch this on a scan - so you should make sure that you get those messages and respond to them.

If you see a recurrence - just check that your hosted software is up to date security wise.

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Made me laugh...
from

Marcel Waldvogel: Funny SMTP

% telnet mail.<major-swiss-bank>.com 25
Trying 194.209.128.98...
Connected to mail.<major-swiss-bank>.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 unigate1 SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today?
HELO blabla.microsoft
250 unigate1 Is thrilled beyond bladder control to meet blabla.microsoft
MAIL FROM: [email protected]
250 sender is [email protected], (yeah sure, it's probably forged)
RCPT TO: [email protected]
250 recipient bounce.me@<major-swiss-bank>.ch, I know them! they'll just *LOVE* to hear from you!
DATA
354 OK, fire away. End with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
From: [email protected]
To: bounce.me@<major-swiss-bank>.ch
Subject: mail test

bla bla
.
250 Whew! Done! Was it as good for you as it was for me?
quit
221 It's been real. Take off Eh!