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I have been told that I am sending out lots of spam emails but I am not ..... They
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The term "backscatter" is
used to describe a side-effect of email spam, viruses and worms where the
spam email triggers a bounced message off of a legitimate server. This server sends the reply
back to the sender identified in the sender field. However, the sender field
is usually forged, and innocent bystanders get backscatter email. If you get emails
that come from the administrator or postmaster that state an email you sent
was blocked or could not be delivered, providing you never sent it
(intentionally or via Malware) then it is likely backscatter. If someone steals
your identity it is conceivable to get thousands of bounce failures in your
inbox making checking your email a daunting task. Whilst you can
make an email rule remove most of these from your inbox, some types of
bounce emails do not contain a subject or body and rules can't read them,
hence the email remains in your inbox.
What can you do ? Ride it out.
There is no one to call, no one Internet provider to help. You can't do
anything at your server and there is no way to prevent this. It should stop
occurring a few days after it started. It might never happen again. If it
becomes painfully obvious it is not going to stop, you need to think about
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