Re: massive fake returned e-mail

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Further to Sue's excellent advice. I would recommend everyone get a google
mail account and use that as their "public" email address. It has excellent
spam filtering and rules for dealing with email that is not marked as spam -
including forwarding to other email addresses. You can also set auto-reply,
so when it does eventually become compromised, you just start another google
mail account and use the auto-reply to inform any real people that are
trying to contact you of your new address.

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"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The most likely explanation is that a spammer got his email address and used
it to spoof the From address for a large spam transmission. In other words,
it's not a bug. It's a fact of everyday Internet life. Your son should be
reminded to protect his email address vigorously and never reveal it in any
public forum.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"calstorm" <murstorm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My son's Outlook has been suddenly bombarded by literally thousands of
messages saying his email (that was never ever sent in the first
place) has been rejected.

Anyone have a clue as to what kind of a bug this is, and how to deal
with it? Grisoft AVG had no effect.

Thx for any suggestions.



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