OT: E-mail address being used for spam?

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 27 20:37:59 UTC 2008


Yeah, unfortunately you are going to have to grin and bear it.

Nothing can be done about it.

Dve

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Godycki <mcg2-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Over the course of the last few days, I have noticed that
> I'm receiving a large number of "Undelivered Mail Returned
> to Sender" type e-mail messages in my Inbox.  These are
> all occurring for messages I definitely did not send (as they
> are clearly bouncebacks of viagra-type spam messages).
> I'm guessing that someone may be using my e-mail address
> and spoofing it as the "from" address when sending out
> spam.  Is there anything that I can do about this?
>
> For what it's worth, I don't even use (nor have I set up) any
> e-mail clients aside from web clients.  So it's not likely that
> I've got a virus/trojan on one of my machines.
>
> -Matt
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