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Topic: Strange email delivery failures |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 12:35 pm |
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Starting last night, I have been bombarded with like 20 email delivery failure notices from hotmail (I do not use Hotmail). None of the addresses are addresses from my address book. Every one has a different mail recipient. They all have a Windows Live friend request from the same person and the requests come in different languages. Below is the text from one of the emails. There is an attachment that I won't open of course.
How can I stop these? I don't think my Yahoo email account was hacked, as the messages come from Hotmail and no one in my address book has received any weird emails from me.
Text of email:
Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
1
Hide Details
FROM:
postmaster@mail.hotmail.com
TO:
I BLOCKED MY EMAIL FROM THIS POST
Message flagged Friday, February 10, 2012 8:55 AM
----- Forwarded Message -----
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
kete_nuk_e_ka_bere_as_shekspiri@hotmail.com
wygant sanders wants to be your friend on Windows Live
View invitation
Notifications preferences | SMS notifications | Microsoft privacy statement
Attachments
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wygant sanders wants to be your friend on Windows Live.eml
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 4:58 pm
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Hotmail hides some of the header details, regarding recipients. Your email account has been forged into the "Reply-To" address and is receiving the bounces form invalid Hotmail accounts.
In spam-land, this is known as a "Joe Job."
There is nothing you can do about this.
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Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 6:47 pm
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I had the same thing a few weeks ago, for about 3 weeks. Off and on. Wiz told me the same thing.
Fortunately whoever was doing it stopped and now it is not a problem.
I cannot say what I feel about scammers, spammers and whatever else lurks out there.
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 6:58 pm
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Thanks guys. I will wait to see what happens. It has already seemed to have slowed down or stopped.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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