RE: [OT] e-mail account hi-jacked?

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

My email address was hijacked too - in the end I received nearly 2000 non
deliverables relating to one of those get rich quick - "send $$ for
you
reports to the name at the top of the list" thing - annoying but
eventually
it dies. Takes about two weeks though.  If you accept
<anything>@yourdomain
then you get them all - which accounts like Demon and Freeserve (which I
see
you use) do - annoying as you can't filter them easily. The address used
and
the email subject change frequently - you can set a filter up for
'undeliverable' 'undelivered' 'delivery failed' 'returned mail' 'delivery
notification' and 'failure notice' - which catches a lot of them - plus a
sender of 'mailer daemon' 'postmaster' etc etc -

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Lamb [mailto:rjl@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 September 2003 14:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] e-mail account hi-jacked?
>
> Since the weekend I've been receiving a shed load of "undelivered
> mail" automated responses to mail that I've never sent from
generic
> but different addresses at one of my domains. Is this something to
> be worried about or has someone just jumped on an address bandwagon
> and is spoofing the addresses?
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Rob
>
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