- distraught - help pls - some ones cloned my email address from 20 diff ip addresses

jema_2

pls help,
a couple of weeks ago i started getting messages on my email, so in english, others in alsorts other languages, many as "returned email" from daemon mailer... I've copied one below-
my friend suggested if poss i sift thro them & see if theres a senderes ipe address, on the few i found & tracked the ipe address, my email address had been hijacked & shows an origin in turkey , america & europe -
I'm with ntl, they dont want to know, as they're only interested if its one of their ipe address's, they dont seem to care its an ntl email address thats been hijacked -
what can i do?, has some one planted a bug or something in my pc?, I'm not a techie & dont understand how this is possible?... and worried what is watchinf or lurking in my pc -
Please help - 350 incoming messages tonight, thats the worst yet...
enclosed one of them... pls:mad:

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DatabaseError

do you use outlook express? if yes, set up a rule to send messages from the mail daemon to trash (delete), not much else you can do, 2 or 3 rules and you should see the last of it

jema_2

thanks, unfortunatley i access it direct thro virgin / ntl - as outlook is set to just bring up husbands emails, there doesnt seem to be any facilities at all on ntl, it wont even keep copies of my sent emails...
thx J.

Cat695

why not just get a new email? takes 2 minutes and then just change your details with banks etc

no need to get distraught....its only a email account

It really is that simple

DatabaseError

oh, before i forget, edit your post to remove all references to yourself and your email address, don't want anyone else harvesting it

Jesthar

Hi Jema,

There is a possibility that your e-mail address has not actually been hijacked, but that some scum of a spammer has randomly used your e-mail address as an alternate return address for the spam e-mails they are sending out (and I mean randomly, as in they made it up and it just happens to be your e-mail address for real). What that essentially means is that if the e-mail is bounced, the 'rejected' e-mail goes to your e-mail address rather than the spammers e-mail address - in effect, they are using it as a kind of spam filter (oh the irony! :rolleyes:) so their e-mail box doesn't get clogged up with all the bounced messages... :mad:

I can't say that is the case for definite, but it is relatively easy for them to do - it happened to a friend of mine a few years back. It would also explain why you seem to have e-mails being returned from all over the world, as spammers use lists of e-mail addresses from all over the world in their quest to con people.

Can you change your password on your e-mail address, and any other security details? If you can, you should do, and that should mean only you can access it. It may well be worth bailing for a new e-mail address as Cat suggested, though - for your own peace of mind if nothing else, especially if these mails don't stop.

Oh, and tony is right about editing identifying details etc. out of your first post - better safe than sorry!

Hope that helps!

jema_2

thank you guys good info
- as suggested ammended op. removed details, cant change email address unfortunatley as very active & we've had it for 14years, a good couple hundred contacts have it, hence its such a nuisance with all this clutter coming in -
so in reality do we think my pc is safe for transactions & its nothing been planted in my pc - sorry showing my complete IT incompetance...
thx

bcl999

You can get a 30day free trial at www.spamarrest.com This would give you breathing space to see if things quieten down or get worse. Think it costs about £5 a month if you continue after that.

Sorry was typing this when you posted your latest message.

peter_the_piper

It might pay you to elaborate on your firewall, antivirus and spyware programs you have on your computer. It may well be a nasty has snuck in.

Airwolf1

Can't you configure what to do with Spam emails via your webmail account. Surely there must be some options for dealing with spam?

M4RKM

why not download and install thunderbird on your computer...

so outlook processes your husbands emails, and then load up thunderbird to use your personal ntlworld email address

then you can have a decent spam filter set up to filter these things out