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Somebody uses my email adress phil 07-20-2008
Posted by phil on July 20, 2008, 8:22 am
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This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
for mail I never sent.

What do I do ?

Thanks



Posted by David H. Lipman on July 20, 2008, 8:35 am
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| This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
| for mail I never sent.

| What do I do ?

| Thanks


Not much. Your email address was harvested and it is being used as the sender
of spam or
malware.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp



Posted by Malke on July 20, 2008, 8:42 am
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phil wrote:

> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
> for mail I never sent.
>
> What do I do ?

There's nothing you can do except make sure your computer is
virus/malware-free. This sort of thing is normally caused by:

1. Your computer is infected and is spewing spam. Of course some of those
spam emails will be sent to the wrong address so will get bounced back to
you.

2. Someone else has your email address and their computer is infected and is
spewing spam.

3. You replied to a public newsgroup, mailing list, signed up for something,
etc. and your email address has been captured by a spammer.

If your computer is completely clean (which you will check by going through
the steps at the link below), then all you can do is wait it out and/or
abandon that email address and use another one.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ


Posted by phil on July 20, 2008, 12:18 pm
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Thanks Malke,

I am absolutely sure my computer is clean.

It`s uptodate with the latest microsoft updates and I never visit suspected
websites. My firewalls are always on.

Thanks for your reply. I will change my email address.

Greetings
> phil wrote:
>
>> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my
>> inbox,
>> for mail I never sent.
>>
>> What do I do ?
>
> There's nothing you can do except make sure your computer is
> virus/malware-free. This sort of thing is normally caused by:
>
> 1. Your computer is infected and is spewing spam. Of course some of those
> spam emails will be sent to the wrong address so will get bounced back to
> you.
>
> 2. Someone else has your email address and their computer is infected and
> is
> spewing spam.
>
> 3. You replied to a public newsgroup, mailing list, signed up for
> something,
> etc. and your email address has been captured by a spammer.
>
> If your computer is completely clean (which you will check by going
> through
> the steps at the link below), then all you can do is wait it out and/or
> abandon that email address and use another one.
>
> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
> FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
>



Posted by VanguardLH on July 20, 2008, 1:00 pm
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phil wrote:

> I will change my email address.

Then later when another spammer claims your new e-mail address as their
own, are you going to change your e-mail address again? And next time
change again? And again?

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