Someone is Spamming AOL with my Domain
 

Hi,

I'm curious if any of you have any contacts at AOL (actual people, not automated bots) in which I can talk to in regards to what appears to be someone spamming AOL users with my domain name as the reply-to email address. I came to work this morning to find over 200 bounced emails and countless remove requests from a spammer using my domain. Any advice would be very gratefully appreciated to avoid getting my domain canned from my ISP.

Note: The spammer is just using my domain name as the reply-to email address, neither my webserver nor email servers were used in relaying the spams.

Thanks
WG

You have a problem :helpme

have you pissed off a spammer lately?

he might have picked that name by random... you arent going to be able to get in touch with an aol spammer... i speak from experience... all you can do is report him to the sponcer if anyone copied the message and sent it back to you

you are so busted :helpme
if he is using a domain that you have a site on, you can say good buy to the aol users, they will add your site to their black list. They don't give a shit if you did it or someone else using your name.
If you already have 200 bounced back emails, then you have at least 20 spam complaints.
I hope for your sake that you are not running a site on this domain.

Well, that's great to know... it's only my company's main website :(

WG

might even block out your whole class c

Are you sure it's not you? lol J/K Sorry about that, seems kinda bad:winkwink:

It happens all the time. Beyond the fact that AOL will probably ban your domain, get ready for death threats and calls to your local police department from crazy anti-spam fanatics.

It's a very common problem.

Sucks to hear that Wired Guy :(

how do you know if your domain is blocked my aol or not? i've never spammed but i'd like to know.