Spoof Emails. Can this happen here at WA.?

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What is a spoof email?

This happens when a spammer alters the header of an email they are about to send out, to thousands or more on their lists..? it shows the FROM email address as coming from your domain..! This is not good and will lead to your good domain been black listed..!

My question is, as we have our websites hosted here at WA, is this situation taken care off, for us by default..? So that all our websites are in safe hands?

If not what can be done to protect us from Spoof Email Spammers?

Are there any settings that we need to enable to save our websites from this happening to our good domains?

Nobody likes to be Black Listed through no fault of their own..!

If we have fallen foul of spammers on our websites is there any way we can find out ? other than seeing our inboxes full of spam emails?

This is how they look...

Christian? Single? Get Connected!

Christian Singles <wordpress@nettalkmatters.com>

From: Christian Singles <noreply-cs2016@qmail.com>

Subject: Christian? Single? Get Connected!

Message Body:

Send

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This e-mail was sent from a contact form on Setting up an Online Business, Not Impossible! (http://nettalkmatters.com)



I have not sent this one out or any others like this one...?

What do I need to do to protect my good website before it's to late..?




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Yes, i have started to get emails with attachments (no I am not opening them, just deleting) and they say that they are coming from the admin on my site, which they cant be but they are using my site address.

Hello Kim, it is a problem, so I removed the old contact form 7, from my contact page, got a new code and put the new one on my site.
I also changed my email address to a new email web address here at WA under my website name.
I have not got any more of those funny emails from my self...?
So far all is looking good.
Hope you are settled in your new home! ( good website)
Thanks for your comment.

Hi, I think like you it's a good idea to change my email as I am getting around a dozen fake emails a day now. Glad you like the site. Yes I am all settled in now thanks. Hopefully will finish the garden this year. thought I'd spend Easter oiling the decking but as always Easter in England means rain, rain and more rain. At least it will give me a chance to update my sites here at WA. I get so side tracked.

I haven't experienced this with WA website emails, but I have just experienced it with my private email. I got spam emails that seemed to be coming from me plus lots of 'not able to deliver your message' emails.

Hi I have only got this type of email from my WA website, not that I want any, from anywhere else. This takes up mt time sorting them out, I also updated Akismet and all is well with the world for now.
Thanks for your comment.

I haven't experienced that in all the time I've been here. We just constantly have to be on the lookout and keep each other posted though.

Hi that's the way to do it, keep posting anything that is not right so we can be ready to carry out any changes that may improvement our websites.

I haven't experienced it here. Thank you for alerting us.

No problem but when you get a flood of emails you know that it's not sales you have made...? :-(

Good question however in the two years I have been here never had it happen nor have I seen anyone else mention it, thank you for alerting us to this type of spamming

Hi Katie, that is good that you have not got any of these emails, may be you have done things good or better that I have...?
It's nice to see you are active in the community here :-)

Thanks Pat and have bookmarked for future use.

I found this for you. I've had this happen (sort of). They used my "tlcmyturn..." but the @gmail instead of the real one. Anyway, hope it's at least a good read for you. Lots of info : D
http://lifehacker.com/how-spammers-spoof-your-email-address-and-how-to-prote-1579478914

Thank you Terry, I'll be looking into it very soon.

Very interesting - thanks. Similar thing happened to me just recently.

Awaiting an answer to this wonderful question!
Thanks
Sheila

Yes, and I hope very soon...? Thank you.

Very good question. When you get the answer I would be interested to know! I hadn't really thought about this, but it's important!

Blessings,
Debby

Yes this is very important and I am glad you also think so, thank you.

Great question and I too want to know the answer to this question. May I suggest a direct question to either Kyle or Carson on this?

Thanks Shawn, nice to see you are on the ball, looks like you are moving up the rankings very well.
Yes this is my next move to ask the top men what is the best way forward from here...?

I was an ambassador for a long time. I am actually kinda happy to step back just a bit and let others have fun :)

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