Hi there,
I know exactly what is happening, i think. What
it is called is spoofing, an spam mail king has
got a hold of your email address and is spoofing
it as his return address. To rid your self of the
remailer messages, these are the messages that
cant arrive at a destination cause it doesnt
exist so they head back home, that happens
because of other peoples now defunct accounts.
The problem is the home address is your spoofed
email address. Dont worry, they dont have your
password or access to your email, they just have
your email address and are taking advantage of a
known flaw in email inherited from the olden days.
Now for the fun part to rid your self of them.
You need to FORWARD a couple of those emails to
TOSREPORTS@aol.com (or it could be
TOSREPORT@ao.com) my memory fails with old age.
and explain that the attached forward email is
being spoofed in the body of the letter. Within
the header(not seen initially, only in the
details) of those returned emails contains the
true mailer of the spam. They can then block that
account from using your email address, but you
may need to send more than one of the returned
emails cause the spammers use a mechanism of
rotating mail servers. I hope this helps a little.
Been an aoler since 91, back in the day when it
was ao-who and compus-what, and couldnt change
even if i wanted to, too many contacts know my
account that it would take me six months to drop
it and get a new one. |