[BNM] Email hijacking

[Richard Maynard]

I've actually been receiving loads of these (nowhere near 10-fold, but quite
a few) messages over the last few days.  I am receiving "undeliverable"
messages to addresses that have never been used.  Seems like a bit of a
double-whammy for the spammer from where I'm sitting, if the message doesn't
get to the original recipient, then the person in the from address gets the
message as an attachment (in the bounce) - "bouncee" thinks "oh - what's
this?" and views the attached spam message.

I wouldn't be surprised if our messages are both coming from the same
source, I'm not worried, and you probably shouldn't be either, you'll get
used to recognising which mail server errors are legit, and which ones are
phony. If you can't recognise the address is was undeliverable to, or the
address it bounces back to you on (only applicable with catch-all emails)
then discard it.

Regards,

Richard.
www.wessexnetworks.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Horne [mailto:jaybeeter at googlemail.com] 
Sent: 02 October 2006 08:20
To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
Subject: [BNM] Email hijacking

Hi all,

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.

Ta,
Jeff
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