I keep getting messages which say that mail I have supposedly sent is undeliverable. It is from addresses that I have no idea what they are. Does anyone why this happens?

Oops, hit the wrong button ;) Duplicated

Sounds like your computer may have been hijacked :( When did you last do a virus check?

I have been doing one every day with the software that came with pc. Its run out today so am looking for a new one.

Sounds like SPAM, does it have links to go to for corrective action or attachements? Make sure you don't open any of the attachments and put them in the bin.

It has return e mail addresses (mostly international) but not web links

Often the return addresses you see aren't even real. There are all sorts of clever ways to hide the origins of spam. Just make sure you don't reply, don't unsubscribe (unless it's a mailing list you joined and you know who the message is from) and don't open any attachments. Hiding web links is another trick. The text can say one thing but the link goes somewhere else.

Thanks Lori
I always delete them but just wondered what they were. Its just a pain really :(

Your email address is used by others to send out spam. It happens to me all the time. I even get spam and viruses sent to ME that I was meant to have sent myself, but of coruse I didn't. Only thing to do is bin them.

I do get loads of spam, mostley stocks and shares and Viagra!! and no I have not been trying to buy any;)

Until a fortnight ago I'd never received any spam..............now I also keep getting loads of stocks & shares stuff. Interesting.

Val

I've been getting this too its so annoying, at first I thought I'd been attacked by a virus but I've scanned every day with Norton and it hasn't picked up a thing My brother is getting them too, so we are now blocking the addresses from where they have been sent..............25 blocked since Sunday evening :rolleyes:

I have tried blocking but everyone that comes through is different!!

Well I don't know if it works or not...I don't seem to have had as many today as I got yesterday. I did consider changing my email address but I don't see why I should. I had a spell like this earlier in the summer and then it disappeared for a while so I'm hoping for a break again soon!

Are they Stocks & Shares stuff too ?

val

Thats what I was getting early summer, then i had a break from them all, it all started again a few weeks ago with the stocks and shares and now ( this weekend) I'm getting loads of "returned" emails from various addresses which I'm supposed to have sent

How bizarre !. I wonder how many of us are getting Stocks&Share stuff. I've had loads, all with wierd story bits first and funny subject titles !.
Who's your provider ?. I'm with Plusnet......just wondered if there's a connection somewhere (no joke intended....get it ?.....'connection' !!)

Val

Me too! Stocks & Shares and Viagra.  Also in work we are getting the Viagra ones. What is going on!

Wanadoo/Orange

None today ................. next time we get a stocks/shares one post it on this thread so we can compare !.

Val

I keep getting the stocks and shares ones as well, every single one from a different address but all the same style,
Colourful writing :( :(
Lea :)

Orange?

Yep ;) Wanadoo has been taken over by Orange

Well, I keep getting the stocks and shares too...colourful writing, also Cilias!?? Whatever that is! I'm with Tesco and have never had any problems till recently...I don't think it's to do with the provider...there are programmes around that can 'trawl' through sites you belong too and 'fish' for e-mail addresses...I also get spam form 'doggy' sites that are setting up in the UK and obviously don't know or don't care that it's illegal to spam in the UK now! I usually send them an abrupt e-mail saying I won't buy from their site now they've spammed me! They probably don't take any notice anyways! Strange isn't it...why would they think we would buy stocks and shares anyway???!!! All the best, Dawn

>I usually send them an abrupt e-mail saying I won't buy from their site now they've spammed me!

By doing that they know they've hit on an active email address which they can sell. ;) Don't respond at all - just delete them.

I often trawl through our work spam filter in case it has 'trapped' genuine email and it is amazing the type and number of spam emails :) They range from the pharmacy sort, bank check your details things, nice Russian girl wants to meet you, to the seemingly genuine sort. When you see the emails sent to numerous business email addresses (many of which don't even exist - are just guesses) you realise just how few genuine emails are floating through the ether :D :D :D I treat all emails as suspicious unless I am 100% sure I know not only the sender, but why they are emailing me :) Fortunately my ISP spam filter is very effective and only a few spam emails get through to me :)

Daisy

Use a spam filter such as "mailwasher". It is free to download off the internet. It is often able to recognise suspicious adresses and label as spam. It allows you to view your mail BEFORE actually downloading it to your computer.

Spam senders are using your address to send bulk mail out to other addresses.  It happens to me too.  It can also happen if you visit a website and ask a question on it where you have ask by email.  Then they get your address.  I get a ton of it from a U.K. site (you aren't getting the Postfix one too, by any chance?)I visited once and all sorts of pharmaceutical offerings due to my searches for cheaper Vet. meds.  One small thing you can do to help prevent it is to be sure you send all your legitimate bulk emails out using Blind Carbon Copy.  BCC.  You may have to enable it in your email program.  Spammers look for messages sent to a large number of addresses at once so they can easily get and use those addresses.  BCC hides the addresses from them and also from your recipients.  So Uncle Joe doesn't see the address of the friend you went to school with, which is only common courtesy anyway.  And they then think that joke was specially meant for them, LOL.

Have "sorted" my emailing problems (kind of!)

I'm filling my email inbox online, so that all bogus emails will now be returned to senders, cos I've no room for any more!

Downside is - I've had to set up a completely new email account, which I can download through my current internet broadband connection! And now off to inform those nice people in my address book of my new email address :-p

I have two personal email addresses. One I use to online shop and register at any web site that requires an email. The other I use for friends and family. That way I can use a pretty stringent spam blocker on the more public address and remove the spam filtering from the private as I don't get any. I don't miss anyone's message then.