why do I get e-mails from mail demon when I haven't even sent mail to the person it says I have?

Question

I keep getting messages from the mail deamon saying that my message is being returned, I dont know the address it was being sent to because I wasnt sending mail to anyone.

ALSO:

I keep getting junk mail from myself. In the subject line it will say something stupid and the sender is myself. Now why in the world would I even want to send junk to myself? Has my e-mail been high-jacked? How do I fix this?

Help on both please.

Answer 1

ppl can send mail from a phony address. This is how spam is usually sent.
The mail deamon messages are most likely fake mail deamon messages. Delete those immediately, don't download attachments and don't click on any links. I have received those mail in the pass, so I contacted the mail provider directly (hotmail) and they said it was fake. They probably did something about it, because I was complaining about security, mentioning it landed in my inbox instead of the junk mail folder. I stopped receiving those messages afterwards.

The junk mail from youself is probably a mail worm that hijacked your address book. As mentioned by the other responses, run scans, it really the only thing u can do at this point.
If your address book has really been contaminated, watch out for emails that come from anyone in your address book, the infection might have spread to other ppl. You should send out a message to everyone in your list to warn them that your computer has possibly been infected and to discard any suspicious mail coming from your address.

hope this helps

Answer 2

Probably because some trojan swiped your address book and is spamming others using your address to hide behind. I recommend an aggressive virus scan. Keep your firewall on and don't open attachments from unknown senders.

Answer 3

Nope, you can't really fix it. The From address can be spoofed separately from the actual sender address when a spammer sends e-mails... you just got lucky.

Answer 4

Bad. Sin does not equal mental illness. Would it be a lie is she believes she is but she is not psychic? There is no proof that psychic powers exist. The likelihood that she has them is very small. You confuse honor and morality. You think character flaws are mental illnesses they are not. Nowhere in the bible is mental illness described as any of these thing. So you are wrong on all counts. It does say judge not lest ye be judged.

Answer 5

Someone is sending spam and putting your name as the return address. There isn't anything you can do to stop it, but you don't need to worry about it either. Just upgrade your spam filter, and it should grab those messages.

Answer 6

click on spam / report it to your isp /or change your email address,it sounds to me that you've got a virus in your system ,go to spybot search and destroy at spy-bot.com download it,need to scan for adware which is most peoples pc problems,when down loaded click run,not save!
its free.

Answer 7

you gotta virus, invest in some antiviral software, and quit signing up for everything online.. if you must, then reate a seperate email address you can use for these sites

Answer 8

There's a virus program that highjacks your email and sends them from you computer. Or.. your password has been compromised

Answer 9

its probably just someone who hacked into your email and is messing with it and sending virusus.

not much help but....maybe thats what happened.

sorry if i didn't help at all

Answer 10

[STATIK_24]. HAS GIVEN YOU GOOD ADVISE AND I ALSO AGREE AS WELL TO. ?