This was not happening before I upgraded my sbc yahoo. I am not sending emails to any of the address's that are showing up. How do I stop this?
2006-10-23 12:43:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
b/c most the email addresses you sent emails to probably arent valid
2006-10-23 12:45:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your email address has been hacked by a spammer who is using it as a front to send out millions of spam emails every day. If he sends out 20 million spam emails a day as though they were coming from your email address a certain number of addresses will be bad, and these are the ones that are being returned to you. Simply delete them. In a few days the spammer will abandon your address and move onto another one.
2006-10-23 12:50:24 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spammers have chozen to use your email address to send mails . This happens at random , they choose mail addresses that look real ( and your obviously does as it is real) in the hope that it will get past spam filters. Generally this stops after awhile when they move onto another poor persons email address to send their stuff from.
2006-10-23 12:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by Jazz_messenger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, and it's most likely, that your computer has been hijacked by a spammer meaning that a spammer is using your computer internet connection + your email address to deliver all of our wonderful spam that we receive daily. You either leave it on all of the time plus and/or have an insecure computing environment.
Get all your patching up to date; get your firewalls secured; your virus patterns need to be up-to-date and spam/spyware programs active on your machine. Run all of your scanners once all this has been done.
Also, as someone else has already mentioned, change your passwords.
Cheers.
2006-10-23 12:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be a couple reasons. You might have gotten infected with an email virus that is sending mail pretending to be you. Run a virus scan.
The other reason could be that someone is using your email address to send spam. There's really nothing you can do about that. Though it's probably not what's happening to you.
2006-10-23 12:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by romulusnr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
youll get those anytime you send to an email that is either deleted or changed,, thats where that is sent from,, its like a postal return to sender notice,,,
2006-10-23 12:46:49 · answer #6 · answered by John C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should probably contact Yahoo! They are either having major technical difficulties or there are other people trying to spam you or leave you viruses.
2006-10-23 12:46:15 · answer #7 · answered by ~*Lady Beth*~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just delete them, they are trying to get you to open them and then they'll do somthing unlawful or unethical. They were doing it to me for awhile. Star
2006-10-23 12:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by Cloud 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change your password.
2006-10-23 12:45:34 · answer #9 · answered by Josh B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋