Receiving Bogus failure to deliver messages (long)

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Steve Ashurst

Recently I've started receiving a bunch of emails from
supposed internet delivery services, almost all of which
have something like this in the message:

Hi.
Message from netmail.com

Undelivered to (e-mail address removed)

Message follows:

The sender is usually something like
(e-mail address removed), or (e-mail address removed), etc. and
most of the time there's nothing else in the message, but
every once in a while there's a huge message with
something like this:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mail.tiscali.cz ([213.235.135.71]) by
mta013.verizon.net
(InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-
20030313) with ESMTP
id
<[email protected]
z>
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 6 Oct 2003
10:57:08 -0500
Received: from tuanmr (213.235.186.3) by mail.tiscali.cz
(6.7.018)
id 3F2692A801084F14; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:37:28 +0200
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:37:28 +0200 (added by
(e-mail address removed))
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
(added by (e-mail address removed))
FROM: "" <[email protected]>
TO: "inet user" < >
SUBJECT: Report
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="nisvdf"

plus a lot more stuff after this.

I must get at least a dozen of these a day, all from
different sources, with different email addresses. My
sent file doesn't show any outbound mail trying to be
sent; I've updated my virus files and ran a full scan that
came up empty; I am using DSL (without a firewall), and am
wondering if I'm being hacked, or is this just some idiot
who is sending these out as spam, just for the heck of
it? Interestingly, these started coming in right after I
first started communicating in these newsgroups -
coincidence? Anyone else having this problem? Thanks.
 
Just delete them. Your address is probably being used as a fake sender address by a virus. There's nothing you can do to prevent that once your address is known.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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