Somebody Using My E-mail

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Queenie

Hi- For the past several weeks, somebody has been using my email address.
What I get, usually in a batch, is returned mail from a Postmaster in the
Netherlands, written in German, saying undeliverable or refused. This mail
is being sent out in my name and is therefore being returned to me. I
contacted my IP, who has cautioned me not to open any of this, which of
course, I don't. I did change my secret password and do not have it stored
on my pc. The returned mail keeps coming. I have Nortons Virus protection
and Internet security. I have run Spybot, Spykiller, to no avail. My pc
registers and sleuth status. How is this happening? How can I stop it? Thank
you for any help or suggestions.
 
Queenie said:
Hi- For the past several weeks, somebody has been using my email address.
What I get, usually in a batch, is returned mail from a Postmaster in the
Netherlands, written in German, saying undeliverable or refused. This mail
is being sent out in my name and is therefore being returned to me. I
contacted my IP, who has cautioned me not to open any of this, which of
course, I don't. I did change my secret password and do not have it stored
on my pc. The returned mail keeps coming. I have Nortons Virus protection
and Internet security. I have run Spybot, Spykiller, to no avail. My pc
registers and sleuth status. How is this happening? How can I stop it? Thank
you for any help or suggestions.
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Somebody has an infected PC that is sending out e-mails spoofing your
identity. The dumbfuck network administrators at the places sending the
"bounce" messages are too stupid to work this out even though its a
known fact. Take no notice of it. Just delete them as they tend to
contain trojans/worms.
 
Thank you for your speedy reply. As I suspected, this is not anything on my
pc, but some peabrain out there getting his/her jollies. I have a very good
idea who this is because this jerk has already sent me a virus attachment to
some mail. Of course, I didn't open it. I do not open any mail unless I know
who it came from. This jerk appeared on another help newsgroup, and when I
asked for advice on what programs to run, he thought it was really funny to
email me with a virus attachment. . . . . so as Elmer Fudd says: "Be
careful! Be wery, wery careful!!
 
Speaking from my personal experiences ive also been getting the same
thing.However i been just deleting them and forgetting about it.I used to
think could i get in trouble by me isp for this but ive never had any
trouble yet.Usually these messages ave viruses attached but not always.I
used to do email sppofing and even though i used others email addresses i
still got found out.And banned by me isp.In the end took me a whole 2 days
to get Wanadoo to let me back on.But ive now learnt me lesson lol. Regards
Mat
Queenie said:
Thank you for your speedy reply. As I suspected, this is not anything on my
pc, but some peabrain out there getting his/her jollies. I have a very good
idea who this is because this jerk has already sent me a virus attachment to
some mail. Of course, I didn't open it. I do not open any mail unless I know
who it came from. This jerk appeared on another help newsgroup, and when I
asked for advice on what programs to run, he thought it was really funny to
email me with a virus attachment. . . . . so as Elmer Fudd says: "Be
careful! Be wery, wery careful!!
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On that special day, Queenie, ([email protected]) said...
This jerk appeared on another help newsgroup, and when I
asked for advice on what programs to run, he thought it was really funny to
email me with a virus attachment
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I don't think this was done on purpose. Since Gibe.F, there are worms
that look for addresses to send to and spoof the "from" with, in any
file that could contain a (e-mail address removed), and use it on their own without
any interaction from the owner of the infested machine.

He probably didn't even notice what his machine is doing all the time.

The only way to stop this, is to extract the mail header (in OE you do
it by pressing Ctrl-F3) and check the IP numbers in the "Received:"
lines. Then enter these numbers into a web service for IP numbers, line
www.samspade.org, and get the info from the result who is the ISP of the
sender.

There should be an address given, like "(e-mail address removed)", which is the
one you have to send your complaint to. Include the full header, but NOT
the worm (the server might deny your mail if the AV says: "mail is
infected"), and ask them to inform the owner of the machine and have it
cleaned/removed from the net.

Complaints against spam are a bit more complicated; the owner of the
spamming machine is often unaware that it is remotely controlled for
mass mailings, and the spammers love to add forged "Received:" lines to
confuse anti spam activists.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Thank you for this information.

Gabriele Neukam said:
On that special day, Queenie, ([email protected]) said...


I don't think this was done on purpose. Since Gibe.F, there are worms
that look for addresses to send to and spoof the "from" with, in any
file that could contain a (e-mail address removed), and use it on their own without
any interaction from the owner of the infested machine.

He probably didn't even notice what his machine is doing all the time.

The only way to stop this, is to extract the mail header (in OE you do
it by pressing Ctrl-F3) and check the IP numbers in the "Received:"
lines. Then enter these numbers into a web service for IP numbers, line
www.samspade.org, and get the info from the result who is the ISP of the
sender.

There should be an address given, like "(e-mail address removed)", which is the
one you have to send your complaint to. Include the full header, but NOT
the worm (the server might deny your mail if the AV says: "mail is
infected"), and ask them to inform the owner of the machine and have it
cleaned/removed from the net.

Complaints against spam are a bit more complicated; the owner of the
spamming machine is often unaware that it is remotely controlled for
mass mailings, and the spammers love to add forged "Received:" lines to
confuse anti spam activists.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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