Should I be concerned that somebody else's domain is pointing to mine?

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Published on 2010-01-21T19:32:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 9:05 UTC
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So the person who owns say, foofakedomain.com, appears to be forwarding with masking his domain to my domain foorealdomain.com.

Should I be concerned about this for some reason? If so, why?

What can I do about it, if I need to?

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