Question:
Delivery Status Notification (Failure)‏?
diz
2009-01-11 07:29:16 UTC
On my hotamil email account I keep getting emails from postmaster@mail.hotmail.com saying 'Delivery Status Notification (Failure)‏' and a message that I haven't even sent...

this is the email that I have supposedly forwarded:

Subject: This Chinnese Diet Seecret Will Shockk You

Unhappy With Your Weigght?
We are loooking for womenn agees 25 to 54 to particcipate in a weight looss study that has helpeed women in Chiina lose weigght.
Serious Inquiries Only!

Click Heere to Leearn More:
http://428.onecampaigns.com/237/360/1481/100



Unsubscribe:
http://428.onecampaigns.com/u1/237/360/1481/100
Wu-Yi Source

5300 Ontario Miills Pkwwy, unit 400
Ontariio, CA 911764

... I'm pretty sure I haven't sent this!


please help!!!!
Six answers:
Michael from UK
2009-01-11 07:36:57 UTC
You didn't send the mail, a spammer did using your email address.



Because it'd be dead easy to stop spam if it all came from a few same mail addresses, the spammers grab lots of real mail addresses and use those as the sending address for their spam.



Lots of spam is bounced by servers, probably because the mail address no longer exists; and you end up getting the failure notice.



So it's just the other side of spam. When you get spam sent to you, the 'from' person isn't who really sent it, they are just a poor innocent in the matter like yourself.



So just bin it.
anonymous
2009-01-11 15:36:36 UTC
You might have accidentally subscribed to some sort of mailing thing that sends ppl an advertising email....



THese emails are junk because I think the same people who sent yours are sending me emails because they always have extra letters in the words like : "Unhappy With Your Weigght? " as it was in yours. As for the delivery failure, that's normally because the email address that you're sending to doesn't exist.



Try unsubscribing and if that doesn't work, im not sure what else you can do :(



good luck =]
Ken_T
2009-01-11 15:41:47 UTC
Just spam dont click on any link on the e-mail just delete it
taxed till i die,and then some.
2009-01-11 15:33:15 UTC
Mark it as spam.
Sir Pete
2009-01-11 15:45:05 UTC
Don't worry about it. It's spam.



Delete and get rid.
superman!
2009-01-11 15:32:51 UTC
i dont know......when i get those things its something i usually send but with yours you didnt send it......


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