Help: Post master spam!

Shane™

Last week somebody who had my (clean) e-mail address invited me to join a "share with friends" type service. :mad:

Since then I have been receiving "failure notice" e-mails for mail I didn't send. These mails have been sent by MAILER-DAEMON, Mail Delivery and Post Master.

I reckon that someone is using my address to send off their Spam, so what's the problem? I'm afraid my account will be marked as a Spam account if I don't do something. Also it's the principal.

So does anyone know what I can do about this? And has anyone else experienced this?

Mimikyu

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Shane™

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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I didn't join anything, how could they have my password?

Plus just in case I changed my password as soon as I got the first few.

Mimikyu

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Shane™

Funny thing is that the addys that are producing the failure notifications are not in my address book, also the same thing was sent to my hotmail account and I'm not getting the same messages from there!

Note: these are Postmaster accounts, so hotmail won't mark them as spam, and just in case i've checked for junk and there is none!

osmethod

In your account there should be a filtering option....

Set up a filter that blocks based on user, subject if its consistently the same username in the email...

I believe your stuck with them now...

osmethod

Hotblack Desiato

Seems to me that someone who has your email address in their Outlook address book is virus infected. Their PC is sending viral email using a fake sender address - a random address chosen from the address book.

If it sends viral emails using your address as the sender, then you will get the failure messages when those messages are bounced.

These failure messages are just another form of spam, really, as many of them advertise the anti-virus scanner used. The AV companies know that almost all viruses use faked sender addresses, so replying to the 'sender' is a complete waste of time.

Shane™

Thanks ninja900, so does that mean my address will be marked as spam all over the world?

What I really want to know is will I have trouble sending on mail?

From your explanation, Ninja, it must have come from an eBay account, as I've been using it alot lately, I don't give out my clean address that much.

BTW: is all being marked as spam (someone mentioned filters), I used the "report spam" feature in Gmail, made me feel a little better.

Snowbat

Your email address will not be associated with spam. Since spam and more recently viruses have been sent with scraped addresses forged in the From: addresses for several years, mail administrators and spam fighters realised it was pointless to base any countermeasures on the From: address. Instead, countermeasures are based on the sender's IP address, spam domain URLs in the body, and bayesian analysis.

Note that some viruses are disguised to look like a bounce where the supposed "original message" attachment is in fact a copy of the virus. Look for executable attachments such as .scr and zipped .exe posing as the "original message". These can be reported using Spamcop.

For real bounce messages, you could point out to the sending ISP that the design of their mail system sucks. Accepting undeliverables (instead of SMTP 5XXing them) and then bouncing to the From: address is considered very bad practice these days due to virus and spam backscatter.

Shane™

Excellent Snowbat!

That's just what I wanted to hear.

Didn't open any of the attachments, I did open a few messages, but I performed a system scan, and it all seems to be ok!

Thanks for the help I'll try get onto the idots who own the ISP, if I can!

rsynnott

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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You GAVE THEM YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD? Are you MAD?!