Re: Hijacked e mail account

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Mike, I believe that to be true of only a small proportion of the emails. Most of them will be bounces from legitimate mailservers which have been caused by some SPAMmer sending to them using Sue's email address. The bounces will likely be because the 'recipient' is invalid (having been generated from a dictionary or something) or the email has been detected as containing SPAM.

Regardless, the advice not to reply is sound.

Cheers,

Cliff

Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User wrote:
Sue

The senders of these e-mails hope that you will answer , thereby finding out that your e-mail ID is valid, active, and a good candidate for future spamming and selling to spammers..

Just delete them as they arrive..


"sue" <sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F2FBBC14-7B3E-48F4-B6BC-ECF95B3DBDEA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Outlook Express is sending e mails which I have not written. I regularly
receive 20 or so "undeliverable" messages each day, telling me that messages
which I have apparently sent (but which I in fact did not try to send) are
not deliverable. I presume my e mail account has been hijacked.
Is there anything I can do to stop this? Someone suggested deleting and
reinstalling Outlook Express but I am concerned I will lose all my contacts
and past correspondence. Is there an easier solution?
I use Norton Anti Virus which is upto date and I also have the automatic
Windows updater on
Any help gratefully received
--
suew



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