Grrr, I am so cross. I have started receiving tonnes of mail to my Inbox claiming to be returned to sender as undelivered. What is infuriating is that I haven't sent the messages at all; it appears my web address has been hijacked by spammers. So, can you imagine the damage it must be doing to the reputation of BreastfeedingMums website and blog.
Is there anything I can do to stop it? My husband doesn't seem to think so and he works in programming. He puts it down to carelessness when web addresses were first introduced. Apparently you can put any address in the "From" part of an email. I find this unbelievable - surely it is akin to stealing someones identity. If I went around pretending to be someone else and destroying their reputation, wouldn't the law have something to say about it?
I'd appreciate if anyone can suggest any way of stopping the spammers - or is that completely impossible. And is it any use marking the returned mail as Spam or will that just damage my email address even further?
Grrr, I am so cross. I have started receiving tonnes of mail to my Inbox claiming to be returned to sender as undelivered. What is infuriating is that I haven't sent the messages at all; it appears my web address has been hijacked by spammers. So, can you imagine the damage it must be doing to the reputation of BreastfeedingMums website and blog.
Is there anything I can do to stop it? My husband doesn't seem to think so and he works in programming. He puts it down to carelessness when web addresses were first introduced. Apparently you can put any address in the "From" part of an email. I find this unbelievable - surely it is akin to stealing someones identity. If I went around pretending to be someone else and destroying their reputation, wouldn't the law have something to say about it?
I'd appreciate if anyone can suggest any way of stopping the spammers - or is that completely impossible. And is it any use marking the returned mail as Spam or will that just damage my email address even further?