Arrrgghhhhh....'Undelivered Mail' I never sent

[lostmysnorkel]

I seem to have a bit of a problem.

I have my own domain (m2visions.com) so my email addy is ####@m2visions.com

I have suddenly started receiving a shed load of 'Returned Messages' from various servers/domains all saying that my message can't be delivered.

The address bars in the top, and the text in the message all seem to point to the ORIGINAL message being sent from 'dfghs@m2visions.com' or some other random series of letters@m2visions.com.

I am concerned that someone has hijacked my email account/domain and is using it to send spam.

My hosting company say it's just a new form of spam and not to worry about it.

I have changed all my passswords but it hasn't stopped the problem.

Is anyone else getting the same?

XXsharkXX

[bartonflyer]

It is a "form" of spam - what's happened is that some unscupulous toe-rag (or spammer to be polite) has lifted a whole host of genuine email addresses & is blasting out millions of emails using these as the "from" addresses in the hope that they haven't been barred by the spam filter of the recipient. There is virtually nothing you can do about it though - it's just one more of the perils of the digital age I'm afraid

[tonymidd]

Yes I had this happen a few years ago, woke up one morning to well over 1500 e-mails; all undelivered messages!
Since changing from IE to FireFox I've not had this problem. I've also made sure that my e-mail adress on my sites is in graphic rather than direct access.

[Tim]

I've got the buggers too.. It's not necessarily your cmputer that's been jacked. For the most part the spammers have gotten your address from someone elses address book and the rest is as Barton puts it.. And nothing we can do.. Unless we find one of the f***ers :butcher:

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

I am getting exactly the same right now. What you need to do is look the the "headers" in the mail that has been returned. If you cannot read headers, in "outlook" with the message open select - View - Options - then read "e-mail header". Copy and paste this information for your ISP as they should be able to "read the information" and contact the senders ISP.

Download "SamSpade" and look in the options for "e-mail headers" It's under "tools"- Parse e-mail headers". Read this information and you will have a "URL" (all the digits) to Tools - decode URL.

I am waiting for "Bravenet" to stop their sender spamming my military addresses. I had to convince a night manager at Bravenet that they were in fact sending the stuff out from their servers.

Try that and see how you get on. Do not know your level of technical ability in these matters but that should go some way in assisting you.

Cheers,

George

[Stemmy]

Yes me too !!!!

[england1965]

Yeah me too.

I was "done" on my old domain - woke up to 6400 emails per day. Grrrr

My ISP (Demon) couldn't give a toss and basically told me it was my problem (Wot No Customer Service?). Luckily found a script online which could mass delete specific mails from a mail account. Not ideal but they tailed off and stopped after a while. Luckily they used a fake mailbox name so I could pick them out. I would have been royally screwed if they'd picked a real one.

I am just getting a handful of these new ones these days.


We should just find a couple - hang them as an example to the rest. :-)

Cheers

Mark