Re: Pirated email IP??

From: RobertVA (Robert_c72nospam_at_hottmail.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:59:21 -0500

BARRY LONDON wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right forum for my problem but I hope so. Over
> the past week or so I have been getting many Mailer-daemon emails where
> someone is sending emails using my AOL screen name( although a different
> Person Name ie <John Smith>myemail@aol.com) where I am NOT John Smith but
> "myemail @ a ol. c om" is my actual email and my home IP number. I have
> spoken to AOLTECH and forwarded the emails to aol. It looks like the source
> of the outgoing mail is Microsoft Outlook. I'd like to kno wwhat I mightdo
> to stop this. Do I need to delete that screen name, change my IP, which I
> don't know how to do, or run some utility? I appreciate any suggestions or
> guidance to a more proper resource.
> Barry

Are you getting these messages in your AOL inbox or you Verizon inbox?
Do you have an AOL account set up in Outlook or Outlook Express? I'm not
sure AOL allows either of those mail clients to work with an AOL email
account. You may find it necessary to use AOL's software to utilize that
account.

Please display and inspect the full headers for the messages you are
receiving. Unwanted email advertisements and scams sometimes imitate
messages like undeliverable mail notices and even messages from your
aquaintences. Those messages could even be comeing from some other
person who has you in thier contact list. That person may have a
malicious program on their computer that is getting you address from his
contact list, allowing the malicious program to impersonate you.

If you aren't already, install and run anti-virus and
anti-spyware/anti-adware programs, install the matching updated threat
databases and check your computer for viruses, adware and spyware.

Intentionaly misspell your email address in your news account settings
to hamper software that scans news postings for mail address to use in
spamming campaigns.

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