Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Peter Bleackley wrote:

> Staving Andreas Johansson:
>
>> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>>
>> > The other ploy I've seen in the past two weeks are messages supposedly
>> > from my ISP both at home & at work saying that certain mails
>> couldn't be
>> > delivered and if I want to see them I should go to the inbox - in
>> the case
>> > of Freeuk, the address was: freeuk.com/inbox/ray.brown/read.php?
>> followed
>> > by a sessionid.
>>
>> I've too received an unusual number of fake "delivery failed" messages
>> recently. I'm starting to fear this account will go the way of my old
>> hotmail
>> account ...
>
>
> Somebody who has your email address stored on his computer has been
> infected with a virus, which has then spoofed your address in the From:
> header. One of the messages it sent with your name on it has bounced.
> Happened to me the other day. Fortunately, I'm good at spotting email
> viruses, so I haven't been caught out by a dodgy attachment yet.


This suggests, I'd say, that one of the list-members has a virus,
judging by the fact that it's happened to so many people.  Either that,
or many of the people we know have viruses....