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phil - 20 Jul 2008 13:22 GMT

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

What do I do ?

Thanks

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David H. Lipman - 20 Jul 2008 13:35 GMT

From: "phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com>

| 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.

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Malke - 20 Jul 2008 13:42 GMT

> 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

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phil - 20 Jul 2008 17:18 GMT

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

>> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my
>> inbox,
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>
> Malke

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VanguardLH - 20 Jul 2008 18:00 GMT

> 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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Malke - 20 Jul 2008 20:27 GMT

>> 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?

Not necessary if the OP is judicious about how he uses the new address. It
is always a good idea to have one or two "junk" addresses and only give the
"good" ones to a select few. Nothing is 100% sure in life of course, but
this works very well for me.

Malke

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FromTheRafters - 20 Jul 2008 20:14 GMT

Delete them.

You might want to see if there are any commonalities you
could use to filter them. I think you can expect more and
more since it appears you have had your email address
harvested by some worm program. Sometimes there are
enough of these to cause problems with your ISP mailbox
quota.

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

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John - 21 Jul 2008 22:50 GMT

You may be able to create a rule to redirect those bounce mail (NDRs) to
junk folder or to automatically delete them. The problem is that it'll also
delete your legitimate NDR. For example: when you mistype an email address,
you may not know your email bounces if there's a rule to auto delete NDR.

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

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