Someone using my website for Email and significant increase in spam
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Published on 2012-11-30T23:47:17Z
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Let me give you the background in context so that you know the full story.
Last summer my web guy (he put my website together) got in a fight with someone who attempted to register on my site using the name of my company as part of his user name. I was not aware of this at all until it had escalated dramatically. I don't know why my web guy was so unprofessional in his response to this person. I really don't know him - met him via SCORE and have never met in person. He is a vendor. Anyway, this guy who got into it with my web guy then threatened to do all he could to hurt my business and said he was internet savvy, etc.
So, nothing seemed to happen for a while then not long ago this guy attempted to send me a friend request on Linkedin. After his behavior I declined it. Shortly afterwards I began seeing a dramatic increase in spammers posting comments on the blog part of my site.
Just lately I have been receiving Emails from a variety of names but all with the "@___" that I own - for my business.
I had additional security added so now they have to register in order to comment on my blog and I am seeing a lot of registration attempts from the same (and similar) IP addresses with bogus names and weird Email addresses being blocked. So, it is not creating more work as it is all automatic.
The Email addresses are of more concern.
Is there a way to identify a person through an IP address or a place to report the behavior or the Email usage?
This guy lives in South Carolina so he is not overseas.
Any help/advice you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Joy
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