For the record, I have had several instances as well where my email address was hijacked and emails I never sent out getting returned to my mail box as "undelivered".
Dom Martin Message: 3 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:34:49 +1000 (EST) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo <(a)[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet]Problems with sancharnet.in (and/or hotmail) - Address Hijacking To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] --- Philip Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. <Yes I have had bounced emails from in the last > few days.> [David Futers, > May 19] > > Recent mails from my hotmail address (which I use > for goanet postings) to > two sancharnet.in addresses (one a reply to an email > from sancharnet.in and > the other a test message to sancharnet.in) have > bounced giving the reason > "Possible Virus Detected unknown.text". However a > test message to yahoo > went through without a problem. > > 2. <Is any one getting emails with viruses attached > from the Emirates>[David > Futers, May 28] > > Again recently I got a returned mail message in my > hotmail account informing > me that a message (which I never sent!) to an ""ae" > address (Arab Emirates?) > had bounced. > > Anybody know what could be happening? Thanks. > > P.S. During April I saw a sudden upsurge of junk > mails in my hotmail account > which I invariably delete without opening. One of > them was always the same > size 73kb even though it seemed to have different > origins each time. This > has since subsided considerably though stray junk > mails (of other sizes) > still come in. The sancharnet.in mail to which I > replied (above) was from a > known person. Address hijacking. Some crooks have recently sent me a barrage of emails in German with very similar headings from addresses purporting to be from UK (*.co.uk), India (*.com.in) etc. In fact, my old work email address was hijacked in one of these, as I received "undelivered" mail to addresses I have never sent. A couple of years ago, I was astonished to have received an automated warning from a Govt organisation stating that I had sent a virus in a message to an address I didn't know existed. A few months ago I received a very irate message from an antagonist in this forum stating that I had sent him a virus - I hadn't. Anybody know if there is a "cure" for this? Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia.
