Not sure if you have already done this, but if not, you could try and work
out where the fake emails are being generated from and whether it is just
one IP address. To do this you need to identify the which IP address the
email has been received from.
Not sure how this is done in all the many email software that is in use,
but in Outlook Express you highlight one of the offending emails, then
right click your mouse and choose Properties and then Details.
If it turns out they are all coming from the same IP address then you can
block this if you are using anti spam software - or even get you ISP to
block it. And / or you can then look up and see who the IP address/es
belong to and see if they have an abuse procedure you can follow.
Or it could be that some one who has your email address in their address
book has a virus on their computer, and this virus is generating the emails
that appear to come from you.
When they are returned do any of the returners say whether they are being
returned as suspected Spam or because they have a virus? If the latter
then more likely to be friend / acquaintance with an infected computer.
If you wanted I could post your query to the ISF list for you as its
members are probably better able to give you a more detailed explanation -
(and solution?) See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Information_Systems_Forum/
Or join the list yourself for these type of queries.
JW
At 12:27 20/10/2005, James Lerman wrote:
Hi listers,
I've noticed a very recent exponential increase in the amount of returned
mail I've been receiving...mail that I personally have not sent. Every day
I receive 20 or more messages about returned or undeliverable mail,
indicating recipients who seem pretty clearly to have been generated by
some random addresser bot that simply creates addresses according to some
algorithm.
My question is, what can I do about this? Is there any way to stop the
incoming flow? I imagine I could set my incoming filters, but if there's
somehow I can stop someone from using my email address to send messages,
that would be ideal?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Jim Lerman
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