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Over a thousand emails in my junk folder. What’s going on?

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This week I had the most annoying thing happen. Someone used my email address fraudulently to send who knows how many messages and over a 1000 of these messages got bounced back to me as undeliverable and most landed in my junk folder. I had no idea what was going on. Who were all these people that got these emails? I didn’t even know them. How did the people sending these emails get my email address. I know that I don’t share anyone’s email address that visits my blog. Please know that I keep email addresses confidential. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone. Obviously, someone was able to get my email address and use it fraudulently. If anyone got any of those messages, I’m sorry. What can I say. If anyone has any hints for me to help reduce the chances of that happening again, I would really appreciate it if you could leave them as a comment. I don’t quite understand how this could happen.

 

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4 Responses to “Over a thousand emails in my junk folder. What’s going on?”

  1. Mathew on February 10th, 2008 9:35 pm

    It’s probably not personal or even done by a person. It’s happened to me and it’s done by a piece of software that either guesses your e-mail address randomly or finds it somewhere and sends e-mail from it. They’re just using your name but don’t have access to your e-mail account. You will, however, get the bouncebacks (as you did).

  2. Elona Hartjes on February 10th, 2008 10:25 pm

    Mathew,
    Thanks for the explanation. Everyone has heard all kinds of horror stories about email, and I was concerned that I might be living one.

  3. Armando on June 17th, 2008 9:11 am

    You did nothing wrong it is called a spoof where people send messages from their location but put your email address as the return. When all these messages get taged as spam or the email address is not valid you will get all the bounce backs. Sadly to say but there is not much you can do.

  4. Elona Hartjes on June 17th, 2008 8:30 pm

    Armondo,
    Thanks for that info.

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