<VV> Email problem (no Vair)

alan WESSON sidevalve@sidevalve.fsnet.co.uk
Tue, 25 May 2004 08:02:45 +0100


Hi everyone

Sorry to waste bandwidth on a non-Vair question, but I am still having the
problem I have been having for some time - i.e. returned spam emails that
appear to come from me but actually didn't. They are proving to be a HUGE
problem, as my emails are being filtered out by other people's, because I am
appearing to be a spammer.

I know I asked before, and someone (possibly Tony - can't remember!) said it
was possible to send emails with false headers, so that looks as if it is
what is happening - but is there anything I can do about it? I am getting
hundreds of these a day, and they are driving me nuts! I can't even identify
where they are originating, or if they are on purpose (i.e. someone who has
hijacked my email to cover their own spamming activities), or whether they
are caused by a virus that someone else has (I have updated my Norton
firewall and done a virus check this morning, and it is all clear).

I am shortly going to change my email address, and this might provide an
opportunity for a fresh start - but I am worried that the problem will just
infect the new email address after a while!!

Is anyone else having the same problem, is it widespread, is it soluble -
and, as I said, is there anything I can do about it? I suspect that it is
arising from the fact that I am subscribed to three email lists/forums
including this one, and that my email address has either been harvested by a
spammer or is being used as a fake 'from' address by someone's computer
which is infected with a virus...

The returned email which apparently came from me but didn't is copied below.
It was HTML, which won't come out on VV, but if anyone can offer me offlist
help I will forward it separately.

Cheers and thanks in advance

Alan, at his wits' end


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sendmail
To: sidevalve@sidevalve.fsnet.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:23 AM
Subject: Yahoo! has blocked your message

Hello,

[Here there was a price list for generic Viagra - Alan]

Go there [This was a clickable button - Alan]

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Best regards,

Nash