warren wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I get loads of returned emails in my inbox, for
people I have never heard of?. Is there any wya of preventing this?

No, there isn't much you can do about it, but the good news is, it should
stop happening over the next few weeks.
It's a common tactic of spammers software to forge victim's names into
the emails so they won't be found themselves. It's automated in their
software, and random, so most likely when this spam run had died out, your
false emails will quit coming too.

About all you can do about it is to create filtering rules where if an email
isn't addressed to you it'll be put into a special folder of your choosing
for perusal (in case good mails get caught too) and deletion.

Patience; it'll stop.

HTH
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