[BNM] Email hijacking

[Paul Silver]

You can install spyware cleaners like Ad Aware and Spybot Search and
Destroy, but it sounds like someone's just using your address as the
spoof sender and trying to spam lots of addresses that don't exist.
You're getting the bouncing messages because the original messages
appear to come from your address.

Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about that. You could set up a
filter/rule in your e-mail program to send anything with 'undeliverable'
in the subject in to the Trash folder, so you don't have to look at
them. (Of course, this will also send anything with an 'undeliverable'
that you might want to look at in to Trash, but that might be a risk
worth taking at the moment.)

Cheers

Paul
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:20:15 +0100, "Jeff Horne"
<jaybeeter at googlemail.com> said:
> I need a bit of email techie help if you're willing.  Over the last week
> the
> amount of emails in my inbox has increased about 10 fold and most of them
> are saying "undeliverable" or things like that.  I'm not clever enough to
> figure out whether my email has been hijacked and is being used for spam
> or
> if it's just a new method of getting me to read spam email that gets sent
> to
> me.
> 
> Anyone know any way i can check.
> For the last 2 months i've only been sending and receiving mail via an
> web browser panel if that makes a difference.
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