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Bounce-backs for emails you never sent

Your inbox fills with "message could not be delivered" notes. But you never sent those emails. Someone else did, in your name.

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Signs this is happening to you

  • Floods of "undeliverable" or "mail delivery failed" notes.
  • Notes from mailer-daemon about emails to people you don't know.
  • Bounces in other languages, about subjects you never wrote.
  • It comes in waves, then stops, then starts again.

Why am I getting bounce-backs for emails I didn't send?

When an email can't be delivered, a note goes back to the address it came from. If a scammer sends thousands of emails using your address, the ones that fail come back to you.

The notes are only the ones that failed. For every one you see, many more may have reached people, with your name on them.

Will changing my password stop it?

No. Your mailbox was not broken into. The scammer never needed it. They just wrote your address on their email. Only the settings that tell inboxes to turn fakes away will stop it.

What we find that others miss

These are small things. Each one is enough to send your email to spam, or let a fake through.

Is any of this hiding in your email? Find out today.

Why senderframework.com

Those notes are a warning. Most people delete them. Don't.

We turn that warning into answers: who is sending, from where, and what it takes to make it stop.

senderframework.com was built by people who have spent years in the email business, fixing problems just like this one for businesses just like yours. We have seen every way business email goes wrong. Email is all we do, and we do it every single day.

  • Once you're set up, the big email companies report to us each day on the email sent in your name. We read every line, so you don't have to.
  • We know your own email from a fake, even when someone has passed it along. No false alarms.
  • We tell you the day it's safe to shut the door on fakes, so you never lock out your own email.
  • Plain words, not codes. What's wrong, how much it matters, and what to do about it.

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