- An odd case of email identity theft?
- Posted by Wha? on August 19th, 2003
I maintain several different email accounts, although all through the same
provider. Earlier today I got a "returned mail" message on one of my
lesser-used accounts. It said that my email to some address I didn't know
had permanent fatal errors blah blah blah... The weird part was that when I
checked out the supposed original message, it was all in RUSSIAN... and in
performing a whois trace, I saw that the domain of the target address was
also RUSSIAN. Can anyone explain how this happens? Do I have to be
concerned that someone has picked off access to one or all of my email
accounts?
Thx.
- Posted by Frank5 on August 20th, 2003
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:34:46 -0400, "Wha?" <techsup@comcast.net>
wrote:
with my email provider it turned out that my account had NOT been
compromised. Some spammer had used my rather plain email address as a
fake return address when sending out spam emails. The ones that went
to invalid addresses were bounced back to me. It stopped after a
couple of weeks.
- Posted by Whoever on August 20th, 2003
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Wha? wrote:
sender email address. I've seen a few such returned mails today.
- Posted by Mark on August 21st, 2003
"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no.way> wrote in message
news:c9d5kvk4nbq9h4rajsl6b8bg7jh99t02k4@4ax.com...
Is that constant change going to be constant?
