******* hell. It looks like some **** is using my email address as the “from” address while shipping out spam. In under 5 minutes I’ve just had 102 “spam” messages drop into my Gmail, virtually every single one an “Undeliverable” or “Message blocked by our spam filters”.
So if you do happen to get an email from “me” trying to sell you penis-enhancing drugs or shitty watches, please don’t mail me back and call me an arsehole. It ain’t me.
I wish someone would come up with a method of “signing” emails which everyone could/would use. I suppose I should really pop something on the old “Moshville” web page, but I don’t know if I can be arsed…
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I suppose it all depends on what you count as spam sweetie! I’m sure I have some emails from you that aren’t of much use to anyone! 😛
The difference being that I only sent them to you and not 100,000 other random people I don’t know. And I don’t think I’ve tried to sell you anything either. 😛
Ack! This happened to me a while back. I’d get 200+ email like that a day. All “Failure to deliver” or “Unknown recipient” and all that ****.
At first i thought it was someone using my email address as the “from” addy like you said. But after looking at a few of them, i now think it’s not the case. I think they’re only masquerading as returned emails but they’re not. They’re sent directly to your mail box with the “delivery failed” message typed into the content.
Did that makes any sense?
I so wish I’d catch those bloody spammers and yank out all the hair on their heads AND bodies, ALL OF THEM, each and every strand, one by one! ARGH!
Nope, checked all these – they’re genuine “bounce” messages with the related headers and error messages.
I have also had a load of spam which *was* titled as a bounce, but turned out to have content. Annoyingly. GMail almost always now classes any bounce as a spam which means I could potentially miss a genuine failure notice.
Way back in the day when things were simpler, I even got some emails from people swearing at me for sending them spam… when I hadn’t. It was easier to prove that my mail address had been faked then, though.