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?

Its spam and the email addresses are faked. see if this helps any:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#9

steve

"warren" wrote in message
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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?

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`

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


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