undelivered emails that i have not sent in the 1st place???

Question

I am receiving about 20 undelivered emails aday and it is driving me nuts now!!! Does anyone know how i can stop this??? I'm also receiving emails from what I think is an american stock exchange company and I can't seem to get off their mail out!!! Any ideas????

Answer 1

There are two possible causes:

1) The most likely: They're just ordinary spam. Spammers have taken to using other names from their mailing lists as the "from" addresses in their mailings so that if they are rejected by the original target, they will hit a second target on the bounce. 99.9% of the time, that's what is happening. The best solution to this is to avoid getting on spammers' lists in the first place, and use an email client with good spam filtering capabilities. I prefer Thunderbird myself, both for its filtering and because, unlike Outlook, it can't be hijacked by email viruses. (whoever thought allowing emails to run scripts in Outlook was a good idea anyway?)

2) Much, much less likely: You might be the victim of a "Joe job" in which someone with a grudge against you is sending out bogus spam in your name. That is an extremely rare possibility, but it's something to keep in the back of your mind. Generally, though, you'd be getting thousands of bounces, not dozens, and probably complaints from your ISP as well, since the perpertrators of Joe jobs make it easy to track down the target who's being joed.

Prevention: Never expose your email address online, not on the Web, not on Usenet, not anywhere. If you have to sign up for something, and there's absolutely no way around it, use a throwaway email address -- a freemail account, a temporary address at a domain you own (you can own and host your own domain name for less per year than the cost of a night at the movies nowadays), anything. NEVER, ever, ever, ever follow "unsubscribe" instructions in spam; spammers use that to validate you as a live person *and* a sucker.

Answer 2

someone is probably spoofing your email address to send their spam and / or virus payload by email. it could be that you have a virus which your scanner hasn't picked up (yet one hopes). but more likely someone you know, who you have sent emails to has got / had a virus and thats how they got your email address alternatively the spammer may have stripped off your email from a web site, (either on line from a message board, a question, a website you administer or a web registration). Once spammer has your email address, theres not a lot you can do about it. but on the plus side its not a problem, just a pain getting all those bounce messages

Answer 3

You are getting the undeliverable mesages as some spammer is using your address as a return address in their garbage. I would not worry too much about this as most people know enough to check the headers for actual responsible party. Your best solution to SPAM is an effective spam filter as using the opt out links is just verifying your address to let them know they can send you even more spam.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Add the mail ID to junk mail address. If you have a facility in your mailbox wherein you can tell that the mail is junk or spam do so.

It takes a while to get rid of em. Almost 2-3 months for me. But now I dont get those stupid spam mails.

Answer 6

1) Change your e-mail password. Someone has hacked into your account, got your password, and is sending spam from your mail account.

2) Use your spam filters and don't read or reply to any of the spam you receive

Answer 7

There's nothing you can do about the emails except filter them out. You didnt say which email program you use, but if it's Outlook Express then follow the guide here:

http://www.delaware.net/support/spamblock/outlookfilter.htm

In the specific words choose "undeliverable".

Answer 8

do not reply to get out of the mail list. this is how spammers work. and sometimes viruses. make use of the junk mail filters that come with your email account.

if you are using POP3 email there's also junk mail filters there, you can also download free anti-spam software. check out: http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware

Answer 9

a spammer has hijacked youer email address and is sending out email as if it had come from you. You get 'undeliverable' messages because he she or it is sending them to millions of email addresses and some of them will be out of date or blocking the message as spam.

Answer 10

Use your spam filters to any of the spam you receive


Reply to them to stop sending you those messages


Change your password


You have surely beened spamed and sum1 knows your password



It happened to me on messenger my friend got an mail that i didnt send her she told me. So i told her to send it back to me i saw it and inmediatly changed my password