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smigon
Posts:124
 | | 01/15/2008 7:11 PM |
 Alert | I use MailWasher so I can delete emails if I don't want them in my mailbox, and I am getting bounced emails at the rate of about ten a minute for the last few hours. I just delete them, but they keep coming at me. What can I do besides keep deleting? I ran Adaware and Spybot and NAV.
This is what one of them says (and I have no idea who Eddie Torres is but that is my email addy):
This message was created automatically by the mail system (ecelerity).
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>>> cschalloner@aol.com (after RCPT TO): 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
------ This is a copy of the headers of the original message. ------
Return-Path: <smigon1@orbitelcom.com>
Authentication-Results: mxo4.broadbandsupport.net smtp.user=smigon1@orbitelcom.com; auth=pass (LOGIN)
Received: from ⏓.174.160.31] (⏓.174.160.31:4516] helo=10.237.223.126)
by mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (ecelerity 2.1.1.23 r(18304)) with ESMTPA
id CA/0F-19282-C366D874 for <cschalloner@aol.com>; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:04:44 -0500
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 08 06:01:32 +0000
From: Eddie Torres <smigon1@orbitelcom.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.85.03) Professional
Reply-To: smigon1@orbitelcom.com
Organization: extortioners
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <359939496.20080115210444@orbitelcom.com>
To: cschalloner@aol.com
Subject: Fwd:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | |
Spring training is just around the corner! | |
| | Jason
Posts:3378
| | 01/16/2008 10:12 AM |
Alert | | Sounds like you have some malware on your system. Start your computer in Safe Mode and then have Adware, Spybot and Norton scan your system. Let us know what (if anything) those tools remove and watch to see if you keep getting these emails. | |
Joined: Jul 2005 | |
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| | garion
Posts:66
| | 01/18/2008 3:45 PM |
Alert | Another possibility: someone is using your email address as the 'From' and "Reply To" fields.. Common practice of spammers.
I ran into this a few years ago. Was such a pain, I changed email providers.
Email is a completely insecure means of communication. You can easily forge emails that look like they came from the President of the US.. As long as you can find an open mail server (known as an open relay), or use your own mail server, its pretty simple to do. | | | |
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| | Jason
Posts:3378
| | 01/18/2008 9:02 PM |
Alert | | I thought about that, but the header information indicates that her computer logged in as her, so unless they made off with her password too... | |
Joined: Jul 2005 | |
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| | movinonup
Posts:127
| | 01/22/2008 2:32 AM |
Alert | | I'm betting it's a virus. | | | |
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| | Reagan
Posts:737
| | 03/09/2008 8:40 AM |
Alert | | It could be what's called "spoofing" where they mask their email address and have it show as yours. (example, their email is me@msn.com, but when they send it, it looks like its coming from you@msn.com. Even though the spammer sent it, it bounces to you because it looks like its coming from you.) If it is coming from a domain that you own and have the email setup with, you can create an "SPF" record to help stop the spoofing. If it is a common email like yahoo or gmail, you pretty much have to wait it out. Spammers generally don't use these for longer than about 2 weeks. | |
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