Someone spoofing my domain to send spam text messages

[beaker]

Is there anything I can do about this? I've received several calls and emails from angry people getting spammed with SMS messages from one of my domains. It's currently parked at Fabulous, and they emailed me saying that they'd also received complaints.

I have no idea where to start looking to solve this problem.

 

[verbster]

This is a terrible loophole in the e-mail system. It happens a lot.

Only two things i've found that can help...and only one thing that stopped it:

1. It helps if you change your address so it's not a catch-all.

2. Go into your registrar account and disable your e-mail account for a day. They willl move on.

It's not pretty, but I don't know what else to do.

 

[-NC-]

Not sure about SMS messages, they might be using an email to sms service?
You could try setting up Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records for your domain.

 

[Name Trader]

Setting up an SPF record will certainly help. Who is providing you with email service?

 

[-NC-]

Who is providing you with email service?

I bet no one is.

I've also just realised the flaw in my SPF idea:

The nameservers are set to the parking company right? I bet the parking company does not provide DNS controls.

Perhaps setting the nameservers back to the registrars, then setting up an SPF record and using url forwarding to resolve to the parking company would work?

 

[Name Trader]

Yep. That's the way to do it -NC-