Somebodys got my email

[lschultz]

I guess somebody got my email and put me on some kind of list. I keep getting these emails from these people I do not know with the subject:no more emails please!! Any know or ever heard of this -- email address removed -- or -- email address removed -- I tryed to reply to them to cut this bulls*** out but it comes back as service unavailable. I think since yesterday afternoon I have got emails from around 10 people telling me to take them off the list and some want a piece of my a** I guess it keeps going on much longer I will stop at my ISP and see if they know what can be done. Thats if somebody don't take me out first.

 

[KPhillips]

Just contact your ISP, they may be able to put a block on them to keep them from coming through.....



kerryp

bastrop, tx.

 

[Ethdee]

Many spammers use forged return addresses and fake email addresses.



Three or four times a year I get a bunch of "undeliverable mail" notices from various ISPs. Someone is forging my address as the return address for their spam, so they don't have to be bothered with the bounces. It's not as if they care at all whether their mail gets bounced. When they're sending out millions of pieces of mail, what's a few errors?



There's nothing I can do about it other than to change my email address; and I'm not going to do that.



The best thing to do with spam is to delete it. Many times, if you click on the "remove" option, it either goes nowhere, or merely confirms that your address is valid.



I've upset someone by tracking them down and getting their account shut off. In retaliation, they've subscribed me to a number of Taiwanese mailing lists, one of which sends me a 300kbyte message almost every day.



When people e-mail me to be removed from the list, I usually respond, tell them that I'm a victim of the smammer just like they are, and ask them to forward the email to me, complete with headers, so I can attempt to report the spammer to HIS ISP.



So far, nobody has responded. But I keep trying.



Jim

 

[WDaniels]

What ever you do, do not reply or unsubscribe to these spams. This tells whom ever sent the stuff that this is an active address and will either send you more stuff or sell your address to someone else. Most of the time they send riders(don't know what to call them) along to tell if you open the mail. This too will let them know that it is active. After you delete the unopened emails, contact your ISP and turn it in as a repetitive nuisance and they will block it for you. It is what I do. Hope this helps.

WD