Someone is using my email address to send out spam, much of it sexually suggestive. What can I do?

Get a new email address. GMail works pretty well. We should have a police force for these types of crimes.

It sounds like you're talking about an email address from your domain name, not some generic one like gmail or yahoo. Unfortunately there is nothing past legal action that you can take. There is no real legal option available if the person using your domain name is overseas relative to you, and that is only if you're able to do your research to find out where the emails are coming from.

If I were you, generate a standard apology letter, and send it out to each person that contacts you. Let them know that the email is not generated on your server. Good luck.

You can also avoid spam by going to a contact form or hiding your email address somehow.

It's unfortunate but this is happening more and more. The first time it happened to me, I wrote to my ISP. Mine responded as yours did, that there's nothing they can do.

They said I might try locating the spammer's ISP, as they could take some action, but that the spammer would probably be gone by the time I did. I was resigned to the fact that it had happened and waited for the repercussions. The thing is, there were none.

And there probably won't be any for you, either. The spammer used your address once and that will probably be the end of it. The messages went to people on the spammer's list, not people in your address book.

The odds are none of the recipients are either people who know you or people who will remember the address from which the spam came. In other words, your name won't be associated with the spam over the long haul. It makes sense for you to be upset about this but the resolution is to eventually acknowledge that it was bad and move on.

Get a new email address if that makes you feel comfortable. Just be aware any email address can be spoofed, whether it's associated with your domain, your ISP or a webmail service. I've had all three types of address spoofed.In fact, addresses that don't even exist can be spoofed.

All the spammer wants is for the recipients to click his links. He's not expecting a reply.

I believe your ISP is right. This is pretty common for spammers and there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop the spam with your name on it. What I suggest you do is create a new email account (try gmail.com) and email all your old contacts that you're changing your email address to the new one and that they should block any email coming from your old email address.

Good luck.

Totally agree with ilaksh. Ditch your email address, notify your friends, sign up with Yahoo or Gmail and move all your emails over to the new account...

Ditto ilaksh above. I got a gmail address and found that from day 1 it did an utterly amazing job of filtering spam (without being told how). On my "business" email address I received up to 200 junk mails per day...recently Google caught and disabled that spam website and cut the number to about 35 per day.

On my "personal" email address I nab about 12 per day. Seldom does more than one and maybe once a month two get through.

If yes, turn off wildcards for email, to avoid spammers from using a dictionary attack to harvest your email addresses for spamming purposes. Also make sure that your computer is clean, the spammer could have used a trojan to harvest your address book. Ask people in your address book to make sure that they are not receiving weird emails from you.

It's unfortunate but this is happening more and more. The first time it happened to me, I wrote to my ISP. Mine responded as yours did, that there's nothing they can do.

They said I might try locating the spammer's ISP, as they could take some action, but that the spammer would probably be gone by the time I did. I was resigned to the fact that it had happened and waited for the repercussions. The thing is, there were none.

And there probably won't be any for you, either. The spammer used your address once and that will probably be the end of it. The messages went to people on the spammer's list, not people in your address book.

The odds are none of the recipients are either people who know you or people who will remember the address from which the spam came. In other words, your name won't be associated with the spam over the long haul. It makes sense for you to be upset about this but the resolution is to eventually acknowledge that it was bad and move on.

Get a new email address if that makes you feel comfortable. Just be aware any email address can be spoofed, whether it's associated with your domain, your ISP or a webmail service. I've had all three types of address spoofed.

In fact, addresses that don't even exist can be spoofed. All the spammer wants is for the recipients to click his links. He's not expecting a reply.

As the previous answers stated, there is pretty much nothing you can do once your email address has been used by spammers. Either ignore it, or get a new Email address (which is painful) and be careful where you publish the new address.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.