Returned mail

[Lorcan]

I am getting up to a dozen mails a day returned due to unknown recipients.
These are mails I haven't sent and they dn't show up in my sent items box.
I have up-to-date McAfee Security Suite and a scan returns no viruses found. Can anyone tel me why this may be happening?

[maviscoull]

i got an email returned today saying it couldnt be delivered.......i sent it yesterday and the guy replied 10 mins later !! strange !!

[thegamer]

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thegamer

[Kerplunk]

I would say the problem lies on someone elses computer. It sounds like someone with your email address in their address book has got a virus which is sending out emails that have your address as the sender / reply address. So when they get sent to an unknown recipient it is you that is getting the NDR report.

[Catso]

An alternative to kerplunk's diagnosis is that you are being spammed, from other computers, which are probably running trojans. The spamming virus is faking the bounced emails. Such 'undeliverable' notifications are harder to block.

As maviscoull says, if you took the trouble to contact the supposed non-existent recipients, you'd probably find they DO exist and have no trouble getting your (real) mail delivered.

This sort of attack is a bu99er to get stopped. Your own AV won't do it, as these seem to be genuine notifications, and all come from different, unique addresses. If you were to stop them, you wouldn't get any genuine failure notices, which may be a problem to you.

Really, all you can do is to abandon the address they are being returned to. That's what I had to do. The number of spams just went up and up, until I'd had enough.