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All sorts of possibilities some of concern others not.
Posted by saw (more from saw) on Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:05:10
In Reply to: Returned mail I've never sent. Is this a new type..., Street, Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:12:27
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At the extreme your system may have been compromised and now is be using as a conduit to send spam. However, I would say odds are against it as they would be unlikely to use your email address in most cases. Higher in likihood would be the possibily that you have a virus that is replicating itself by sending a copy to contacts in your email address book. However, in this case, I wouldn't expect a lot of returned email unless you have alot of defunct email addresses. The reason is that unless they are trying to exploit familarity I would expect them to spoof a source email address but exceptions are possible.
More likely someone is spoofing your email address to send spam or annoymous email from a computer other than yours. For instance, it could be a virus that has infected the computer of someone you exchange email and that is now spoofing your address.
There are are a number of other possiblities. For one thing are you sure you didn't send the email? A bad or defunct address in a distribution list your using perhaps? If you decide to open the the returned email (assuming it is a returned email) the message and the email headers (it's routing informaiton) might give you some idea what is up.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Returned mail I've never sent. Is this a new type..., Street, Sun, 10 Aug 2003 08:12:27
- Thank all! n/m, Street, Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:12:18
- KLEZ virus, just delete the message, Aero'ed, Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:24:36
- Re: Returned mail I've never sent. Is this a new type..., Ian Glenday , Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:18:24
- Re: Returned mail I've never sent. Is this a new type..., StephenZ, Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:04:03
- All sorts of possibilities some of concern others not., saw, Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:05:10 <-- Viewing This Message
- have you scanned your machine for a virus, Trev, Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:37:57
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