Somebody uses my email adress

[phil]

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

What do I do ?

Thanks

 

[David H. Lipman]

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.

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

 

[Malke]

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

 

[phil]

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
"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:%237eCGYm6IHA.1468@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> 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
>

 

[VanguardLH]

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?

 

[FromTheRafters]

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.

"phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com> wrote in message
news:OdCQANm6IHA.1428@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
> for mail I never sent.
>
> What do I do ?
>
> Thanks
>

 

[Malke]

VanguardLH wrote:

> 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?

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

 

[John]

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.

"phil" <pvandermeeren0522xyz@yrogers.com> wrote in message
news:OdCQANm6IHA.1428@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
> for mail I never sent.
>
> What do I do ?
>
> Thanks
>