I`m getting loads of email-returned

[esox]

"Mailer-Daemon" email`s - notifying me of returned emails i`ve never sent....

Is this some kind of virus/spyware thingy?
I do spyware/virus scane regularly.......
?
?

 

[andy_k]

my guess is that if you are sure that you are virus free then somebody has used your address to send out spoof emails.

Andy

 

[Plodd]

More likely someone who has you in their address book has a virus that has decided to pick your address to spoof from.

I get it every now and then. Not much you can do about it.

 

[esox]

How does someone send an email using my address though - i must be the only registered XXXXXX@aoldotcom?

 

[Steve_Perry]

email addresses can be spoofed fairly easily unfortunately.

S.

 

[Benzowner]

Its almost certainly a virus. I had the same thing a few weeks ago. Someone who has your e-mail address on their pc has received the virus and you are the next in the list. Just delete them or better still block it totally

 

[pammy]

Sounds the same as happened to a friend of mine recently. There's a thread on here about it. Her email addy had been spoofed which is very very easy to do. Even I can do it!

Not a lot you can do about it tho it seems

 

[Flyer]

Some evil spammer scum has spoofed your email address for the REPLYTO field. So, all those nice companies that have out-of-office replies setup, or mail servers set to send a "this account doesn't exist" reply, get routed through to you.

Nothing you can do, except sit it out. Eventually, a month or so, they will stop ... until the next time.

[Guess who was recently spoofed ]

 

[Shude]

http://mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=18757

 

[glojo]

"Mailer-Daemon" email`s - notifying me of returned emails i`ve never sent....

Is this some kind of virus/spyware thingy?
I do spyware/virus scane regularly.......
?
?

Pammy's friend and I were plagued by this and we were both with Freeserve\Wanadoo and they couldn't care less.

I am now with Eclipse, no Viagra posts, no spam

John

 

[marc777]

There was an article in Sunday Times about this yesterday - suggesting that some ISPs were getting overzealous in filtering and so sending back mail. It listed 2 or 3. Might be just a coincidence, but apparentlt ISPs getting some stick about it.

Marc