Réponse de bbtrumpet.comil y a 12 ans
I get fake emails from my bank, from paypal, from the IRS, from the FBI and dozens of other real companies. The from part of those emails is fake and almost everybody knows that. Well this also happened to me. It happens to thousands of people a month. This is the reason spammers use a trojan, to get email addresses from computers to use for this activity.
99% of spam has spoofed the from part. When you expand the email header then you see that the from part was fake. The email header itself will even say ----- is not a designated sender on the ------- network. (Meaning fake email address.) Run a trace on the sending ISP and you get Somalia or some similar country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing
What is a business owner supposed to do once his host gets hacked?
If I change domain names, then I am out of business for months and most likely forever with no sales coming in. Someone told me if I change domains to not use a redirect form the old one. The spammers would just change over to my new domain. So nobody finds me for 6-12 months.
If I don't change, then I get phone calls from all over the world cursing me for spam. If I was a spammer why would I have my address and phone number on who is. For 20 dollars they would hide it.
Then what if I change and the new host gets hacked? This happens all of the time. Even microsoft got hacked.
This is a serious question and I have asked a lot of people but nobody has told me what they would do. I'm asking people how to fix it. That is why I am here. I know it happened. I'm am trying to find out what options I have.
I see that you are upset for getting some spam. How should I feel. The person who sent it to you angered you. They are closing my business and that includes my ability to pay for my house and take care of my family.
If you have any ideas, I would like to hear them.