# Some shitfucking spammer used my email address in his slimy spam!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771 "2003-10-16T12:55:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/1 "2003-10-16T12:55:26Z")
Someone needs to get a severe beating, Joe Pesci style. Last night, I get maybe 50 “bounce” messages for email I did not send. Opening one of the bounces, it is clear that someone put my email addess in the from: field in their fucking spam. You flaming bag of leprous donkey jizz. You congealed phlegm-lump floating on a sea of boiling ebola-monkey shit. How the fuck dare you? And to add insult to injury, I decide it would be best to inform the postmaster of my provider, in case they think I actually sent this shit. (I’m pretty sure my machine wasn’t hijacked, I keep up to date on my virus scanner and regularly scan with ad-aware and spybot). So, I forward a bunch of the bounce messages to [postmaster@adelphia.net](mailto:postmaster@adelphia.net), and I get the following bounce message: > [@](#): > > This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: > > The user(s) account is temporarily over quota. > > \<[postmaster@adelphia.net](mailto:postmaster@adelphia.net)\> > > Please reply to [postmaster@adelphia.net](mailto:postmaster@adelphia.net) > if you feel this message to be in error. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/2 "2003-10-16T16:21:26Z")
Has this happened to anyone else? Did your ISP think that they had actually sent the spam? I can’t rule out the possibility that my mailbox was hijacked at the mail server. I changed my password this morning. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/3 "2003-10-16T16:30:16Z")
It’s happened to me once or twice. Since they didn’t hijack my mail server or anything, I don’t think anyone with a modicum of knowledge about computers would think my computer actually sent out all those emails offering breast size enhancements. 🙂 Of course, **we** were the ones getting all the hate mail from people who got the damn messages. Annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/4 "2003-10-16T16:43:34Z")
Have you done a virus scan lately? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/5 "2003-10-16T19:38:38Z")
Yup, did one last night. Nothing found. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/6 "2003-10-17T05:29:55Z")
I’m getting tons of messages that say "Hi. Message from [yahoo.net](http://yahoo.net) I’m sorry I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses: Undelivered to [some random email address I’ve never heard of]" I DID have a worm on my computer, but it’s gone now, and I have ZoneAlarm up and protecting me from intrusions (which I was apparently getting before). Dunno what to make of it, but could be some new scheme. ---
**Author:** ![NBIT33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NBIT33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NBIT33)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/7 "2003-10-17T06:57:57Z")
Beware the Joe Job [http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3415219,00.html](http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3415219,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/8 "2003-10-17T11:33:25Z")
They don’t have to get your email address from anywhere on your system - they could’ve grabbed it from another poor soul’s email address book or outbox. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/9 "2003-10-17T13:23:09Z")
They probably just got it from one of those “millions of email addresses” list. I already get a lot of spam at that address; now they are likely using addresses from the list not just as a destination, but to hide their tracks too. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/10 "2003-10-17T13:25:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NBIT33 \* > \*\*Beware the Joe Job > > [http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3415219,00.html](http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3415219,00.html) \*\* That sounds like pretty much what happened to me. Fortunately, I only got maybe 50 bounces, and it stopped. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/11 "2003-10-17T14:02:55Z")
Yep, sounds like a joe job. Contact your ISP, if you use only one computer to access your mail, they can track your IP address and attempt to trace any other people who are accessing the box. If they’re a responsive ISP, there are some things they can do. But a determined spammer can usually easily get around them, but a road block or two might be enough to convince them that it ain’t wirth the trouble. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/12 "2003-10-17T14:04:05Z")
I had this happen in August. I was in the hospital for a week with meningitis and, when I returned home, my email box was full of those bounced email notices. I changed my password and they stopped but I got hate mail for 2 weeks afterward. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-shitfucking-spammer-used-my-email-address-in-his-slimy-spam/207771/13 "2003-10-17T15:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \* > \*\*Yep, sounds like a joe job. Contact your ISP, if you use only one computer to access your mail, they can track your IP address and attempt to trace any other people who are accessing the box. If they’re a responsive ISP, there are some things they can do. But a determined spammer can usually easily get around them, but a road block or two might be enough to convince them that it ain’t wirth the trouble. \*\* I doubt if they actually used my mailbox, I think they simply put my address in the FROM: field. They may not have even put the address in the REPLY-TO, I haven’t got any hate mail or anything. But this could be simply because people now simply delete spam and don’t bother to reply and curse out the sender anymore. I did change my POP password, just to be safe.