Keep getting emails from my email acount

[230K]

Hi

We are being tortured by emails from my email address, it is a wanadoo account using windows mail. The emails are for the usual member enhancements etc and when you click on the sender it really is our full address.

How does this happen, i have added to blocked senders list but still happens.
Anyone any idea how to stop this???

Thanks in advance.

230K

 

[grober]

It sounds as if your Email address has been hijacked as a forwarding address for spam E mailers. Do you get lots of rejected E mails from postmasters echoed back to you. That's a sure sign. Simplest effective solution is to change your E mail address or start using HOTMAIL or a similar service and be extremely careful who you reveal your new address to.

 

[whizzkid11]

Hi

We are being tortured by emails from my email address, it is a wanadoo account using windows mail. The emails are for the usual member enhancements etc and when you click on the sender it really is our full address.

How does this happen, i have added to blocked senders list but still happens.
Anyone any idea how to stop this???

Thanks in advance.

230K

Are they related to Wannadoo services? If so I would contact Wannadoo support unless you can find an unsubscribe option hidden at the bottom of the mails somewhere in small feint print.

 

[230K]

It sounds as if your Email address has been hijacked as a forwarding address for spam E mailers. Do you get lots of rejected E mails from postmasters echoed back to you. That's a sure sign. Simplest effective solution is to change your E mail address or start using HOTMAIL or a similar service and be extremely careful who you reveal your new address to.

Is there any way i can "Un hijack" the account by changing passwords or anything. Do get a few rejected email type from same address. Only started about 6 weeks ago and we seem to be getting progressively more each day.

230k

 

[230K]

Are they related to Wannadoo services? If so I would contact Wannadoo support unless you can find an unsubscribe option hidden at the bottom of the mails somewhere in small feint print.

No they don't seem to be from Wanadoo, just opened one and it was from Canadian Pharmacy with our email adress selling Viagra.

230K

 

[tlzeebub]

I was getting emails from myself also on my yahoo account which i thought was strange so i changed the password and that seems to have stopped it

 

[amwebby]

The fact that they appear to be coming from your email account is just because they are bulk mailings. If you hit reply it will expose the sender. DON'T reply to any of these. That only validates your email address and then the spam really begins.

They've got your address in one of many way: possibly you "published" it on a website or forum, then it is just a simple matter of trawling software picking up any [email protected] addresses and creating a mailing list.

Best way is to change the name on your account (and the password just to be on the safe side) and delete the old account.

 

[grober]

Worth trying changing the password but since your Email address is just forwarding mail I don't know if that will be effective. I found Wanadoo to be singularly ineffective in addressing this type of problem even after reporting/complaining several times.

 

[230K]

The fact that they appear to be coming from your email account is just because they are bulk mailings. If you hit reply it will expose the sender. DON'T reply to any of these. That only validates your email address and then the spam really begins.

They've got your address in one of many way: possibly you "published" it on a website or forum, then it is just a simple matter of trawling software picking up any [email protected] addresses and creating a mailing list.

Best way is to change the name on your account (and the password just to be on the safe side) and delete the old account.

When i it reply our email address pops up as the reply address.

230K

 

[eGuru]

The fact that they appear to be coming from your email account is just because they are bulk mailings. If you hit reply it will expose the sender. DON'T reply to any of these. That only validates your email address and then the spam really begins.

They've got your address in one of many way: possibly you "published" it on a website or forum, then it is just a simple matter of trawling software picking up any [email protected] addresses and creating a mailing list.

Best way is to change the name on your account (and the password just to be on the safe side) and delete the old account.

I have been getting these for the last couple of weeks. When you look at the full headers you will be see the senders IP address, usually S America at the moment. Even opening the email will verify to the spammer that yours is a valid address. Just delete them.

 

[Benzowner]

We've started getting them on our works e-mail, just keep deleting them.

 

[whizzkid11]

No they don't seem to be from Wanadoo, just opened one and it was from Canadian Pharmacy with our email adress selling Viagra.

230K

I would say contact Wannadoo and ask about their spam filter - mentioning that you are now receiving the messages and what you should do about it.

They may have made some changes at their end which means these are now getting through or maybe they need to make more changes to fix it.

At the end of the day these spam messages create such a load on the mail servers that it is in the interests of the ISP to filter all spam when it hits their servers.

 

[amwebby]

I have been getting these for the last couple of weeks. Even opening the email will verify to the spammer that yours is a valid address.

Really! How?

 

[stevesey]

Really! How?

Only if you have the "always send read receipt option set" and spammer has requested one (N.B also out of office message are quite good at confirming the address is valid).

230K have you used the "mark as spam" option in wanadoo webmail for these messages - this should help tune the wanadoo spam filters.

Regards your email address - it's probably being spoofed by the spammers as the "from" address so will show when you do reply - the only what to get the at the real location is to look into the e-mail headers, this will show you the servers the mail has come from (not sure how you do this in windows mail, view->options in Outlook).

 

[masqueraid]

Really! How?

It's more insidious than that - the "Canadian Pharmacy" is a good example. When you open the email you see an image of the drugs on sale.
This image is downloaded from the spammers' servers each image has a unique ID associated with the email so to display the image sent to [email protected] the email needs to download image A03DEF012A.jpg. This is a "web-bug".

You see the image on your screen and delete the email as junk.
On the spammers' email servers A03DEF012A.jpg has been downloaded 1 time.
All that needs to happen is the spammers check against their database which email downloads A03DEF012A.jpg and that email address is "live" and worth more to sell on.

 

[stevesey]

It's more insidious than that - the "Canadian Pharmacy" is a good example. When you open the email you see an image of the drugs on sale.
This image is downloaded from the spammers' servers each image has a unique ID associated with the email so to display the image sent to [email protected] the email needs to download image A03DEF012A.jpg. This is a "web-bug".

You see the image on your screen and delete the email as junk.
On the spammers' email servers A03DEF012A.jpg has been downloaded 1 time.
All that needs to happen is the spammers check against their database which email downloads A03DEF012A.jpg and that email address is "live" and worth more to sell on.

Which is why you should have the automatical download of images on Outlook, OE and other mail apps set to "prompt me".

 

[Simon]

How's that done please?

 

[amwebby]

I think masqueraid is saying the images in each email are individually named for that address. I doubt the scammers would go to that much effort myself but what do I know?

 

[masqueraid]

I doubt the scammers would go to that much effort

'fraid it isn't difficult at all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug for how it works

 

[amwebby]

As I said, what do I know? Thanks for the info, most enlightening. I have requests on for graphical images and read and receipt messages so I feel relatively secure but you can never be too vigilant.