Re: email fraud issues
From: Nick Burns (thedoc_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/11/04
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:00:35 -0500
If any of your friends who have your email address and has a virus, the
virus with use your email address from your friends address book and send
itself to thousands of other people and it addressed from: you.
Welcome to the web.
"Leesa" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:b1cd01c436ff$7523fe30$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm on a roll here tonight so I might as well ask all my
> questions.
>
> I know this is getting to be a big problem and I'm
> wondering where I can find out more about it. Some nice
> little creep out there decided they liked my email address
> and is using it to send junk mail and maybe viruses. I
> know that because about 2 months ago I started getting the
> failed messages returned to me. Seems they haven't
> figured out how to get the failed ones returned to
> themselves YET. In the last couple of weeks they have
> started sending ME email using my own email address. I
> never open them but have forwarded them to my hosting
> company and to the Att. General's office (after telling
> them the problem and telling them that the messages would
> be coming their way for review).
>
> There must be some companies (or governments) that are
> researching this issue. I would be more than willing to
> send them these emails if it would help. This issue is
> going to be worse than the viruses if these people learn
> how to get these emails returned to them instead of the
> legal email owner.
>
> Thanks. Leesa
>
>
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