Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!
On 13 Feb 2003, Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:30, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly
> > sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of
> > attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is
> > happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind?
>
> Probably a spammer using your adress as the reply-to. You can try to
> trace it back if you get a DSN notice that includes full headers of the
> original mail... otherwise... you're out of luck.
>
> These things are happening more often lately.
>
Thanks to everyone for replies and some interesting links. Pretty much
confirms what I suspected.
AC
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