Ah here cmon now!

cormie · 01-10-2007 9:37am #1

In the space of 5 mins I've got about 12 spam emails at different times stating the mail I sent didn't deliver, from various post masters sent to various addresses. I mean I've always gotten spam, but never this bad. I woke up to 24 emails, so that's about 40 altogether in the space of 8 hours:mad:

Doctor DooM · 01-10-2007 9:41am

Either a company your filter isn't set to deal with or a new company's gotten hold of you addy... pants.

cormie · 01-10-2007 9:44am

Well I haven't sent any mails from the address in a good while, I just got another 35 mails since I started this thread (5 mins ago or something!) :mad: :mad: :mad:

Mountjoy Mugger · 01-10-2007 9:45am

It sounds to me as if someone is spoofing your email address.

Count yourself lucky. I get an average of 150 - 200 spam emails a day, every day.

Spear · 01-10-2007 9:46am

cormie wrote:

Well I haven't sent any mails from the address in a good while, I just got another 35 mails since I started this thread (5 mins ago or something!) :mad: :mad: :mad:

Sounds like you got chosen as the luck victim to have your email address spoofed as the reply to address for a spam run.

cormie · 01-10-2007 9:57am

What's this spoof thing? Haven't heard of it before. Up to about 200 emails now so far this morning! On track to beat you Mountjoy Mugger:mad:

cormie · 01-10-2007 10:53am

So up to about 400 now this morning. Is this likely to continue all day/week/month/year/decade at the same rate:eek:

Saruman · 01-10-2007 10:55am

That's nothing.. i have had customers with 40,000 a day or more...

You sure you are not sending them? I do not mean you personally.. i mean you could have a mail virus that's sending them out.

cormie · 01-10-2007 11:04am

Pretty sure, I hope so anyway, how would I check? I have AVG mail scanner and it's not reporting anything. Where would I be getting all the addresses if I was sending them? There's google group addresses and everything and all the recipient addresses are just randomwords@mydomain.ie

Mountjoy Mugger · 01-10-2007 11:16am

Set up a rule so that any emails coming from / going to that address or containing that address (if you don't use it) go to the deleted items folder.

Check for spyware. http://www.spybot.com/en/spybotsd/index.html

Deliverance XXV · 01-10-2007 1:38pm

Did you leave your email address online (unencrypted) anywhere in public view?
If so, a spambot could have recorded it and could have stuck you on their mailing list!

cormie · 02-10-2007 9:24am

Seems it's died down now thankfully, wonder what all that was about? I only got 3 in the space of about 9 hours since last night, which is the usual amount.

What do you mean unencrypted email online anywhere? As in, have I the address just typed joeyjoe@domain.com without any coding behind it?

Redisle · 02-10-2007 5:17pm

I was getting a load of spam on my eircom mail account.. so what I did was open a gmail account, setup the gmail account to receive the email from the eircom account (gmail can act like a pop client).. then setup my client with the gmail account's pop server and get all my relevant emails spam free in outlook..

kerplunk. · 08-10-2007 7:20pm

cormie wrote:

In the space of 5 mins I've got about 12 spam emails at different times stating the mail I sent didn't deliver, from various post masters sent to various addresses. I mean I've always gotten spam, but never this bad. I woke up to 24 emails, so that's about 40 altogether in the space of 8 hours:mad:

Spam is a total pain in the backside, I've lost count of the number of important mails I've missed becoz they have been buried in all the junk - For some handy tips on avoiding spam email try this web site

Regards

Kerplunk

Ah here cmon now!

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