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Email i did not send
I have an o2 email address, which i've had for several years.
Over past week my email inbox is filled with returned emails that i did not send.
Last night 8 delivery messages returned at 1am while i was asleep.
I have checked computer security and did a full scan and everything is ok.
Any way i can stop these emails.
Should i set up a new o2 account and email address.
Thankyou
Over past week my email inbox is filled with returned emails that i did not send.
Last night 8 delivery messages returned at 1am while i was asleep.
I have checked computer security and did a full scan and everything is ok.
Any way i can stop these emails.
Should i set up a new o2 account and email address.
Thankyou
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Did they come up as Mailer Demon? If they did just change your email password.
I would change your password for a start.
Always 1 dxxkhead
Changing the password on your account is a sensible step. The problem with shutting down the account altogether is the hassle of informing everyone who needs to know of the change of address. However if it is a "disposable" address you only use for online business and never for anything really important then closing it may not be such a hassle.
There is also the possibility that your account has not been compromised at all. It is relatively simple to spoof the Sender address in an e-mail to disguise it's true origin. So all that is needed is your e-mail address to be visible somewhere and it can be used. Or an account belonging to someone you have sent an e-mail to has been compromised and your address "harvested" from that.
Unfortunately there is no way you can prevent that address from being used. All you can really do is close the associated account so that any future bounce backs end up somewhere other than your in-box. But nothing you can do will stop that address being used. Unless you know who actually sent the messages and employ some large gentlemen with baseball bats to educate said miscreant in the error of his ways
This is the message i get
Mail delivery service
Delivery status notification
These recipients of ur message have been processed by the mail server
Bad destination mailbox address
Think there is more than one on here.
That would start the alarm bells ringing in my head straight away if it did.
Will check back in 24 hrs.
Thanks
So you could still get e-mails returning to that address that you never sent initially.
Just out of interest did any of these returned e-mails actually contain the content of whatever the original message "you" sent was in the body of the message? Or did they have an attachment that supposedly contained the original message?
It does occur to me that these could simply be spurious messages purporting to be returned e-mails with the sole intention of getting you to click on the attachment to see the who, what and wherefores of the original message but actually it installs some nasty instead. In other words, there never was an original to be returned.
If all else failes i we cloae account and open a hotmail email.
You could get exactly the same issue with any other account you open. The only cure is to close all your e-mail accounts. Never ever open a new one. Cancel your broadband service. Wipe your computer and sell it (or preferably smash it into 10,000,000,000 pieces).
Then only ever communicate with people using old fashioned paper and ink and those little pictures of the Queen you stick in the corner of those things called envelopes
Ok mate, gotta start work now gas street light need alightn
The to/from addresses are handled by the commands MAIL FROM and RCPT TO. Whether or not the headers echo those commands is irrelevant. You can send an email to someone that is apparently addressed to someone else and comes from an address that knows nothing about it.
http://www.earthinfo.org/example-smtp-conversation/
it's worth changing your password but it probably wont help. the mail is probably not being sent by you. rather your email address is being spoofed.
it could be someone who has your email address on their phone or computer has something and your address is being used to spam their contact list under the assumption that they might know you. or your address was harvested from a long forward list.
So far no more bogus emails.
Hopefully changing password has helped.
Thanks everyone