Helpppp

[louiselux]

So I keep getting all these delivery notification status emails to addresses I haven't emailed. I checked both my pc and my laptop for viruses and trojans and things, but nothing shows up. Googling hasn't really helped me understand what's happening either - unless someone is using my email address to send spam. Huh. Which sounds likely.

Comments

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

There's not much you can do since it's more than likely that a spammer's stolen just the spelling of your email address rather than hacked into your account - Yahoo! email address/groups users in particular seem to have this problem :(

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Especially if the part before the @ is a word or phrase in the dictionary, or a name - many times spambots just go through a giant word list and use that to generate email addresses from a domain name - aardvark@domain,com, albatross@domain.com, adam@domain.com, asmith@domain.com, barbara@domain.com, etc.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I think this really must be the case, because I'm pretty certain I've cleaned my system thoroughly.