Re: Help! Someone is using my email address for spamming!

[Lance Hill]

Update your anti-virus definitions. Sounds a lot like the SoBig.F worm.

Lance
*****
"Punky" <punky98@hotmaildot.com> wrote...
> My hotmail box is full of 'mail undeliverable' messages. I can tell by
the
> headers that all the messages were auto submitted by the same person.
>
> Is there any way that I can stop this? How do you report stuff to
"abuse"?
> I've heard of this, but never had to do it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Where will you spend eternity.....Smoking or Non-Smoking? heh heh
>
>

[Terry]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:43:28 -0700, "Lance Hill"
<lltbhill@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Update your anti-virus definitions. Sounds a lot like the SoBig.F worm.
>
>Lance
>*****
>"Punky" <punky98@hotmaildot.com> wrote...
>> My hotmail box is full of 'mail undeliverable' messages. I can tell by
>the
>> headers that all the messages were auto submitted by the same person.

Sound advice *but* his machine is not necessarily infected. SoBig.F
worm fakes email addresses and his email address has probably been
found by the worm on an infected machine and then used as a fake
sender address.

[Jim Harmon]

"Lance Hill" <lltbhill@earthlink.net> wrote in
news:bhuubp$3a162$1@ID-26139.news.uni-berlin.de:

> Update your anti-virus definitions. Sounds a lot like the SoBig.F
> worm.
>
> Lance
> *****
> "Punky" <punky98@hotmaildot.com> wrote...
>> My hotmail box is full of 'mail undeliverable' messages. I can tell
>> by the headers that all the messages were auto submitted by the same
>> person.
>>
>> Is there any way that I can stop this? How do you report stuff to
>> "abuse"? I've heard of this, but never had to do it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Where will you spend eternity.....Smoking or Non-Smoking? heh heh
>>
>>
>
>
>

Not necessarily. Some spammers do steal email addresses to be used in
their "From" or "Reply To" lines. My guess is that these spammers feel
more secure if these addresses actually exist. Not that they're willing
to supply their OWN address.

I had this done to me. As far as I could tell, there was nothing I could
do about it. There was no hint as to the actual sender of the returned
mail - so no way to guess who to send the abuse notice to.

Fortunately, though, it lasted only a few days and disappeared as
suddenly as it appeared.

[Punky]

"Jim Harmon" <search53@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93DD57869D4BAsearch53hotmailcom@130.133.1. 4...
> "Lance Hill" <lltbhill@earthlink.net> wrote in
> news:bhuubp$3a162$1@ID-26139.news.uni-berlin.de:
>
> > Update your anti-virus definitions. Sounds a lot like the SoBig.F
> > worm.
> >
> > Lance
> > *****
> > "Punky" <punky98@hotmaildot.com> wrote...
> >> My hotmail box is full of 'mail undeliverable' messages. I can tell
> >> by the headers that all the messages were auto submitted by the same
> >> person.
> >>
> >> Is there any way that I can stop this? How do you report stuff to
> >> "abuse"? I've heard of this, but never had to do it.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Where will you spend eternity.....Smoking or Non-Smoking? heh heh
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> Not necessarily. Some spammers do steal email addresses to be used in
> their "From" or "Reply To" lines. My guess is that these spammers feel
> more secure if these addresses actually exist. Not that they're willing
> to supply their OWN address.
>
> I had this done to me. As far as I could tell, there was nothing I could
> do about it. There was no hint as to the actual sender of the returned
> mail - so no way to guess who to send the abuse notice to.
>
> Fortunately, though, it lasted only a few days and disappeared as
> suddenly as it appeared.

Thanks for the response guys. I updated my anti-virus program and scanned
my system; also ran AdAware and SpyBot.....everything came up clean.
This isn't my main email address....but the mailbox is full now - of
"returned undeliverable" messages. For what it's worth, I changed my
password. <g>