getting inundated with MAILER-DAEMON messages

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getting inundated with MAILER-DAEMON messages

For the last few days I have been getting many return mail messages like **message you sent blocked by our bulk email filter**. The emails are from addresses I don't recognize and I didn't send out any of the emails they are referencing. What is going on? Do I have a virus or something? What can I do to stop this? Thanks!

IMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 11, 2008 7:28 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 12, 2008 2:20 AM in response to paulamarie

Greetings and welcome,

Rather than a virus it sounds more like your e-mail address has been stolen. Or spoofed. Someone is sending out spam with your address, and you are getting the results. Or they could be phishing for your information, hoping that you'll respond to some of the e-mails and confirm that the address is actually a working one, and so know that they have a good address for sending spam to.

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Dimaxum

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Feb 12, 2008 10:29 PM in response to paulamarie

Hi Paulamarie,

Or they could be phishing for your information, hoping that you'll respond to some of the e-mails and confirm that the address is actually a working one.

I think that this is the case. Over the years I have regularly a bounced back Mailer Daemon message after I sent mail.

I the beginning that I received these messages I was wondering if people got the message i sent, So I called them only to confirm.

I never respond to a Mailer Daemon messages. Just select it an mark it as junk mail.

Dimaxum

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paulamarie Author

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Mar 30, 2008 8:28 AM in response to paulamarie

It turned out that someone had gotten my .mac password and was sending emails through my account. The solution was to change my .mac password, which I did, and the barrage of return emails has stopped. Thanks to those who responded to my question!

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paulamarie Author

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Feb 12, 2008 8:10 PM in response to Dan O'Donnell

What can I do to stop it? Any thoughts?

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Answer 5

Feb 13, 2008 3:55 AM in response to paulamarie

The thing is, there's not much you can do, other than mark them as junk. Anything more than that is determined by your ISP.

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Answer 6

Mar 30, 2008 9:29 AM in response to paulamarie

how did someone get your password? That sounds more worrying to me

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