Hackers / E-Mail Spoof

I have been getting a bunch of e-mails returned to me, the problem is that I never sent them, someone has been spoofing my e-mail address to look like I'm sending e-mails and I'm also receiving a bunch of e-mails with attachments from unknown senders, these e-mails were scanned and contain a virus.

I'm under attack by a hacker, why I don't know but I wanted to put everyone on alert.

If you receive an e-mail from whatever@bail-recovery-directory.com it's not from me so don't open it and definitely don't download any attachments.

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Chuck

Chuck,
I have been receiving these emails as well. This is the second time in the past year this has happened. I believe they are targeting people from this forum because in the past I have received email from Rex's email address that contained a virus. I contacted Rex and he indeed did not send any emails my way. Make sure you're scanning your emails everyone, even if you know the address they are coming from.

Me three!!! My web site keeps sending me all kinds of e-mails from itself to itself and it amounts to about 100 hundred a week or more!

I think what's happening is that this hacker is somehow spoofing e-mail addresses, he is sending e-mailes with viruses to people that appear to be coming from e-mail addresses associated with our web sites and when he sends one to an invalid e-mail address it gets returned to us.

Were not the only ones this is happening to, I have been receiving
e-mails with viruses from what appears to be big businesses like newspapers but I know that it's not really coming from these businesses it's the hacker spoofing their e-mail addresses too.

It's starting to get annoying, I wish I could find out who is behind it.

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Chuck

Vrus, virus, virus yes it caused my computer here at work to completely crash on monday. I had so many virus infections that my hard drive froze and it had to be replaced. The funny thing is I was just opening norton anti virus to run a check, when it finished my computer froze.... go figure!

I keep my Norton antivirus protection set to automatically scan ALL incoming e-mails and any other files I open that contain macros or Microsoft programs such as Word, Excel, etc. It has saved me a world of trouble.

I NEVER open an attachment that comes from someone I do not know. I use Incredimail as my replacement to Outlook Express for my ISP e-mail which allows me to "bounce to sender" any spam emails not on my approved list, saying that it was sent to an invalid address. This gets rid of a lot of spam. I also use disposable Sneakemail addresses whenever I have to give an email address to register for anything I have doubts about on a website. If I start to get too much spam in it I just delete that address and create another. It is free for up to 10 and forwards to any permanent address you list. It is much easier to delete a "disposable" e-mail address than to change your permanent one everytime it gets on a spam list.

Just some suggestions that I have found beneficial...

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Kathy Blackshear
Blackshear Investigations
Blackshear Bail Bonds
Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
Walsenburg, CO

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