I am getting email returned to me for messages I never sent

[Roon]

Anyone knows what is causing this? I scanned my computer for worms and such, all clean.

[Deja Q]

1. Spam. Phishing. It's inevitable.

Weird, but inevitable.

Best you can do is to summarily delete those items and don't even click to read them.

[Roon]

3. Yeah, I thought it was something along those lines

I was just afraid my machine was hijacked to spam. But i am sure it isn't now.

[Guy Fawkes]

2. Probably a glitch in their server...

It's happened to me before- and I'm not even using Windows! Let me guess: a 'could not send' message with the email in question blank?

[Roon]

4. The only thing in the returned mail

Are links to defunct porn sites.

[Guy Fawkes]

5. OH... that is spam.

(nevermind me)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Anyone can send an e-mail with somebody else's sender address.

And when that e-mail can't find its destination, the bounce message goes to the stated sender address, not to whoever actually sent it (which usually can't be determined at all).

[LiberalHeart]

7. Yep, that's how my email works, but the bounced email has viruses blocked.

[Blue Diadem]

8. We had that happen when we had Earthlink, they told us

that our mail box had been breached on their end somehow. It's been quite a while now..so I don't remember everything that happened, but I do know we had to reset passwords etc.