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emails in inbox
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? |
emails in inbox
Its spam and the email addresses are faked. see if this helps any:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#9 steve "warren" wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
emails in inbox
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 Pop` |
emails in inbox
Those can be one of 4 things:
1) Some spammer is sending the original messages and using your e-mail address as the sender. 2) Someone else has a PC infected with a virus and the virus is sending itself as the original message and using your e-mail address as the sender. 3) The message is the virus itself, pretending to be a returned mail. 4) Your PC is infected with a virus and it has been sending itself. And this is really a returned mail that your PC sent. In cases 1, 2, and 3 above, the messages are not coming from your PC and are not going through your e-mail account. There's nothing you can do to prevent anyone from sending an e-mail with your e-mail address as the From header, just as you can't prevent anyone from sending a postal mail and putting your name and address as the return address. At this point all you can do is filter out the messages. Your ISP may offer some filtering at the mail server. To make sure that case 4 above is not the cause, you should check your PC with an updated anti-virus program. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "warren" wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
emails in inbox
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