Undeliverable messages

Peter Kodner · June 23, 2007, 06:13 PM

For the last 2 days I have been getting 20-30/day for error messages for addresses and people I have never heard of. I block them with Cloudmark immediately and don't even look at the attachments but what is this all about? Never had it happen before.

Daris Mulkin · June 23, 2007, 08:29 PM

Peter I get them sometimes to but not that many. And they are always a AOL address.that I've never heard of. And it usually reads undeliverable because of a virus. I delete them also.

Daris

Curt Durand · June 23, 2007, 08:52 PM

Peter, I get hundreds every couple of months. My inbox will be chock full of them. It was described to me as a spammer using your email address to send out emails intending to flood spam filters with random words and phrases that help make the blocking of spam harder to do. Didn't our congress do a wonderful job on spam reduction?

Nick Arrera · June 24, 2007, 04:33 AM

Yahoo Moves Quickly To Plug Phishing Hole

Phishing is where you get an email to update you account info on a fake site ..

In your case, looks like someone is using your email address to spam others .. When they spam a bad address , the mail bounces back to you .. Nothing you can go except live with it or change your address ..

Lo Down · June 24, 2007, 10:54 AM

I must be rel lucky.......... I doubt that I have ever had 10 junk e-mails in a day. I probably don't average one per day. I might go for 3 days without any, then the next day, get two of em. I have MSN and use hotmail for most of my e-mails. I have a yahoo mailing address too. It rarely gets any junk e-mails........ maybe a couple a month.

Lucky Lo (knocks on wood)

rgfloor · June 24, 2007, 02:38 PM

Lo, I am going to sign you up for all the sales people and give your name to a friend to post on the Nigerian news sites. That way you sould start to get more e-mail, at least 50 a day!!

Jerry Thomas · June 24, 2007, 03:19 PM

Don't forget about the enhancer products RG ..... which by the way do not work

Floorguy · June 24, 2007, 05:38 PM

They want me to laundry some money from overseas.
A lot of Kings from Africa, all the sudden know me, and want to drop money in my bank.

Nick Arrera · June 24, 2007, 06:25 PM

I think they had that scam on date line ..

Lo Down · June 24, 2007, 07:52 PM

rgfloor said

Lo, I am going to sign you up for all the sales people and give your name to a friend to post on the Nigerian news sites. That way you sould start to get more e-mail, at least 50 a day!!

With friends like you................

Jerry said

Don't forget about the enhancer products RG ..... which by the way do not work

It's OK Jerry, we won't tell.... and those products are for old folks anyway.

Jon Scanlan · June 25, 2007, 01:24 AM

Nick it sounds like the reverse of what I was getting trying to email you and Selva Your IPs stopped my emails

Nick Arrera · June 25, 2007, 04:15 AM

Sort of Jon , In your case your server was being blocked by Sels isp because a lot of spam was being sent from it ..
In Petes and Daris case , someone is using their address to send spam ..
a good tip is when you go on a site for the first time that you have to register , type in your isp address wrong .. a good site won't accept it
but a bogus site will ..

Peter Kodner · June 25, 2007, 10:45 AM

Read up a little on the problem and I think it is called "spoofing". Now real optimistic about eliminating it- hopefully this jerk will move on to another address soon though! A few ways to get it:
1. Virus/worm on your own computer. Up to date Anti-Virus and Spam software should prevent this.
2. Spammer gets your e mail from someone else who has your e mail address int heir computer and he steals it from there.

Proably some other ways it happens I don't know about, but bottom line is there is no effective way to get your address back form the spoofer once he has it

TFP Admin · June 25, 2007, 01:33 PM

One of the favored ways of collecting email addresses is to send an email and tell the recipient to forward it to as many people as they can. Somewhere along the line, a spammer gets an email with a whole bunch of good email addresses on it.

I never forward those kinds of emails - jokes, urgent messages, whatever - and I always seem to offend a family member or friend who has a habit of sending these things, or family newsletters and the like to everyone in their contacts when I tell them to take me off their mass mailing list.

Of course, as the admin of a website, I'm allowed to send mass mailings. That's different. Honest, it's in the "How To Be A Webmaster" manual.

Nick Arrera · June 25, 2007, 05:17 PM

I believe i posted that in a earlier thread T .. I did the same thing with family and friends , but still had a some one still sending them to me , so i put them in the block senders list .. Some people just don't get it , and they are the ones always calling me to fix their confuser ..