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You can check the headers but the place they're sent from is not always they place they originate from. Awful lot of pc's out there infected with zombie mailers.

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this thread is 1 year old... we are getting old very fast Dead
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Older, but much finer!

Rudster - forgot to mention... make sure you don't have a "catch all" mailbox. You'll have no need for one and all it turns into is a spam pit.

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Thanks dpyers, I will speak to my email host
 
All the spam I am receiving are webwiz standard email, so this must be because I am running a webwiz site?  Does eveybody get this problem?  If so, why is webwiz under attack?
 
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Other than  'password reset', the other two -  'your account suspended' and 'warning: your services near to be close' are not standard wwf text.

Sounds like someone's on a phishing expedition similar to the phony emails from Paypall. I consistently get email that's supposedly from a bank asking me to verify my personal account info for a bank I never heard of. Examination of the url for the link that you're supposed to click on will reveal a faked url.

You're getting the phishing info so someone can obtain your password to your wwf site. They can get your forum specific mail address in one of three ways...
  1. You have "Allow members to send me email" checked in your profile. Always use PM, that's what it's there for.
  2. You didn't secure your access db. In which case one or more people got the email addresses of everyone registered for your forum.
  3. You posted your email address in the forum.

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