i keep getting emails saying something is undeliverable or whatever when i haven't sent anything how can i fix

Question

thanx guys....have already changed password but will get it set as spam n see where that takes me.

Answer 1

This is junk mail, simply mark it as Spam or create a rule so that when it is delivered it gets deleted.

Answer 2

It's called "spoofing". It's just one of the ways to cover your tracks when you're up to no good.
It can happen because someone you know has been attacked by a virus. The virus gathers all of the email addresses from your friend's contact list / address book.
The virus then sends out emails, using these addresses as a phony return addresses. When some of these emails bounce back from the server (fail to reach the destination for whatever reason, ex. email address no longer exists..). Then the email server will send the message back to you (again because it's using your address as the return address) with the "undeliverable" message.

Try doing a google search for "email address spoofing".
Other hackers will also spoof your IP address or even your network card address (MAC address).

The only way to stop it is to change your email address.. But there are no guarantees that it won't happen again. If it's a consistent problem, try to get a 'real email address' but only give out disposable aliases for that address. Then you'll know where the problem came from & can delete the alias and keep your 'real' id.. ( if your ISP provides that service..)

I've had my email address spoofed before, and I've even had someone spoof my cell phone number, ( to cover their tracks.. I was contacted by the state police ..).

Answer 3

Well I would change your password in case someone else is logging into your account and sending e-mails, and also this could be just other people using other accounts to send e-mails and using your address as the return address to try to fool the recipients so just ignore the messages after changing your password. A good password includes letters, numbers, and more letters like "jim616bo"

Answer 4

Either your computer or another computer that has your e mail address on it, is badly infected with a virus to allow another person to send out thousands of spam e mails a day.

"In 2003, spam investigators saw a radical change in the way spammers sent spam. Rather than searching the global network for exploitable services such as open relays and proxies, spammers began creating "services" of their own. By commissioning computer viruses designed to deploy proxies and other spam-sending tools, spammers could harness hundreds of thousands of end-user computers."

"Most of the major Windows e-mail viruses of 2003, including the Sobig and Mimail virus families, functioned as spammer viruses: viruses designed expressly to make infected computers available as spamming tools"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spam_%28e-m...

All you can do is be sure that your computer is free of virus, worms and trojans. Here is a good clean-up procedure if your currently are lacking one.

1. Scan for virus and remove (free online scan) with BitDefender

http://www.bitdefender.com/site/home/...

2. Scan for trojans and remove (free online scan) with Ewido

http://www.ewido.net/en/

3. Scan for ad/spyware and remove (free download) with Spybot Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybo...

If your computer is clean, then all you can do is wait until the owner of the infected computer that is sending spam with your address relalizes what is going on and cleans-up his computer.

For further infomation you can Google the word "botnet"

Good luck

Answer 5

If you haven't already done so, it is a good idea to scan your system and make sure that it is not infected with a virus/worm/malware that actually is sending mail from your system. A quick online way to do this is provided from TrendMicro at http://housecall.trendmicro.com

Answer 6

you probably did not some thing incorrect, you computer isn't contaminated and also you could not do some thing to quit it. you're sufferer to a unsolicited mail run who used your manage as sender and as a outcome get each and every of the bounces of undeliverable addresses.