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[ILUG] Is my email compromised?

[ILUG] Is my email compromised?

John P. Looney valen at tuatha.org
Fri Dec 13 14:41:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:38:13PM +0100, Paul Linehan mentioned:
> On examining the addresses and content (make your lad bigger spam), it
> is obvious that I never sent these messages, so why am I getting these
> delivery error messages?

 Chances are that someone has been sending spam looking like it's coming
from you. Not much you can do, and most people assume spam has forged
"from" addresses, so you shouldn't experience a backlash.

 Just delete them, and forget about them.

John




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