OT: E-mail address being used for spam?

[Madison Kelly]

Matthew Godycki 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

It's called backscatter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail)

Out of curiosity, look at the mail headers in the bounce and see if you 
see the mail agent "The Bat!".

Madi
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