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po*n email sent from my email address

Should I be worried?

         

chiyo

12:56 pm on Oct 9, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Today I got an email as follows that suggests it was "bounced". Have changed the email addresses etc to but wondering whether someone is reallly using my email to send porn promos or its just clever/stupid spam?

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Subject: Mail Error
To: @somedomain.net:myadress@xxx.com

Your mail cannot be delivered to the following address(es):

550 5.1.1 <my@address.com>... User unknown(RCPT TO:someother adress@oanet.com)

Please check the above address(es) and then try again.

---- Header of the source mail attached ----

Received: from 415044@ARUBA([211.93.108.74]) by some domain.net(JetMail 2.5.3.0)
with SMTP id jmd3bc3426e; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:29:58 -0000
From: my@address.com
To: <some@otheraddress.com>
Subject: Hot download - adult sites only
Date: lun, 08 ott 2001 08:32:21 -1000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_626F_00004D8E.00007D80"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Reply-To: yet@anotheraddress.com

------=_NextPart_000_626F_00004D8E.00007D80
Content-Type: text/html;

gieckboy

1:34 am on Oct 12, 2001 (gmt 0)



If its an email account off of a domain you own you might want to look into it. A friend of mine is a sysadmin at a large research institute and they recently had their mail servers hacked by a group of email spammers. The spammers sent out tens of thousands of emails to random addresses.

The institute only found out their servers had been compromised after the all outgoing emails from the institute started bouncing back due to the fact that several ISPs had blackballed them. The companies that run the blackball lists aren't all that concerned with getting a site off the lists once it ends up on it so it might be worth it you to look into it a bit.