Over recent weeks I have been receiving a constant flow, perhaps even a deluge, of emails which are all notifications of the failed delivety of emails that I have not sent.
The failure message almost always shows the supposed address from which the e-mails were originally supposed to have been sent as a lengthy number of random digits and letters before my actual user name i.e. B54B2E491@[FF99].plus.com. The addresees of the e-mails look as though they could be genuine addresses but that is hard to tell. Some of the e-mails have attachments and some don't.
Today I received a supposed e-mail from an address which is a plus.net mailbox I set up a long time ago, but which is never used and which none of my computers is set up to receive e-mails from. It was sent to the address from which it was supposedly sent, and to a number of my other plus.net mailboxes which are also never used.
What I am unclear about is whether the supposed bouncebacks are spam which is simply being sent to me, or whether the bouncebacks are actually genuine and indicate that someone is bombarding the world with bogus e-mails from my account which may be getting through to some people but are being bounced back from others. I can obviously eliminate the former problem (spam I am being sent) with a spam filter, but can I do anything about the latter if that is what it is ?
I have done virus checks and I don't believe I have any viruses.
Hope I have explained the problem clearly enough and grateful for any help !
