[dba-Tech] WTFO?

On 16 Mar 2004 at 6:37, William Hindman wrote:

> ...all of a sudden I'm getting a bunch of returned messages that I never
> sent :(((((((
> 
> ...they all appear to be porn spam using a variety of names in the from line
> but all with my dejpolsys at hotmail.com following the name which of course
> results in me getting the ones with a bad address.
> 
> ...I'm afraid that ISPs will start to filter my hotmail address which I've
> used for years mostly for my business contacts :(((
> 
> ...is there anything I can do?
> 
Nothing at all. 

You are just another victim of a "joe job". Some spammer picked your 
address to use as his forged from or return address.

I've recently been hit with the same thing, loads of bounce messages 
for a bunch of non existent addresses all *@lexacorp.com.pg.




 
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