Recently I've been getting spam sent from my own email address to my own email address, with the subject line
Contact Form Submission from My Site, or
Contact Form Submission from (insert Michael Kors or any other brand name here). These were robot generated, dropping into my inbox at a rate of one every couple of minutes. Annoying? Immensely.
My first instinct was to check the back end of my website using FTP to check that it hadn't been hacked. All was clear.
I use a Mac, and did check that my machine hadn't been vulnerable to any little nasties who'd slipped in under the radar.
I host my own site and my client sites on platforms which use the excellent CPanel as a means for managing website software, spam fighting, email addresses and much more.
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