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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: Hotmail Returned Mail From People I Didn't Mail |
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| I keep getting returned mail in my hotmail folder from people I didn't send any mail to. What's going on? |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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It's probably just a clever new spam mail pattern.
What's more worrying is that when I mail someone and it doesn't reach the destination I'll get a message back saying
"Sending to [email protected] failed,
message succesfully delivered to ........"
then a list of 10-15 korean email addresses that I've never heard of. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:30 am Post subject: |
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Zed, I don't know either, but I subscribe to Hotmail too, and I get the same thing.
Last edited by tomato on Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| I don't recall this happening until about 3 months ago. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| It's some virus like Sobig.f -- reads address lists and sends out emails. |
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jaebea
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:24 am Post subject: |
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What happens is when spammers send out emails, they use your address as return addresses.
So those bounced emails, use your address as the return to: address, hence all the reverse spam.
I hate spammers. I'm sure the feeling is quite universal around here.. :)
jae. |
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