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Help with Question about emails I am not sending but getting bounce back

‎04-03-2012 03:11 PM

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I am getting this all the time for the last 2 days.. I am not sending emails to these people and they are different people.. Like right now I haven't gotten one in 10 min and about 2 min ago I got 7 of them back saying that same message.. I have ran a full scan (Windows 7) with Malwarebytes and also I am running ESET Nod32 fully updated and I get nothing found on both... But it is getting really annoying.. I am getting about 60 a day if not more.. Any thoughts please... 

 

 

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Re: Help with Question about emails I am not sending but getting bounce back

‎04-03-2012 08:54 PM

Your email address is being used in the FROM field or BCC field by spammers. The spammer is sending to inactive email addresses (aborted) and are being sent to your email address as u deliverable. Your email address has been SPOFFED. It should stop soon as the spammer moves on to another email address to use.


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Re: Help with Question about emails I am not sending but getting bounce back

‎04-03-2012 08:57 PM

Yes I called Comcast and they said I had a Virus lol... Anyway all I did was change my password on my email and it has stopped... Thanks

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‎04-03-2012 09:00 PM - edited ‎04-03-2012 09:01 PM

Do also check the your Sent Folder to see if those messages show there. You did the right thing by changing your password. CC


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Re: Help with Question about emails I am not sending but getting bounce back

‎04-03-2012 09:04 PM

yes and they are not in my sent items at all

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Re: Help with Question about emails I am not sending but getting bounce back

‎04-04-2012 09:56 AM

Spoofing then.  It wouldn't hurt to run a full scan of your anti virus as well to changing your password to a strong password.

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