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eMail returns - not real!

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  • 21-06-2006 12:02am
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    celica140bhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭


    My Mrs. has been getting a lot of emails into her yahoo inbox saying that it failed to deliver such an email to such an address. She gets those "undeliverable" type returns. Now, she has not sent these emails and they all return with an attachment - <something>.zip

    So, we have not opened these zip files but the returned message looks for real from various companies. So I'm questioning has one of those spam sending types got her email address and sending from there?
    Any ideas?


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    They're either set up as fake bounces, intended to get you to open them out of curiousity; or the missus' email address has been used to send spam to other people, not an uncommon occurrence. Either way, just toss them in the bin.

    adam


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    NutJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭NutJob


    If its not expected its spam. Never underestemate spammers there good at what they do (screwing up e-mail for everyone)


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    Hecate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Hecate


    Yeah this is a common trick of spammers. They will often use it in attempt to circumvent corporate email policies or otherwise confuse the end recipient.

    The email protocol (SMTP) was designed in a more innocent time when nasty things like spammers/virii/phishing scams didn't exist and everybody on the Internet trusted each other. As a result it will happiliy accept any old garbage you throw at it. Unfortunatly we are, by and large, stuck with it :(


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    quinta
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭quinta


    More than likely someone who had her email address in their address list got a virus which then harvested that persons email contacts and used them to further propagate the virus. The emails could have been sent to non existent email addresses which would then send an NDR back to her account, hence the delivery failures you are seeing.


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