First incident was yesterday. Have had three today. I am getting notifications that "Mail Delivery Failed". All returns have the same info except for the time stamps, so something is trying to send the one e-mailI've not sent any e-mails yesterday or today, so no reason I should be getting a failure notice.This is on a Mac OS running Safari, and the e-mail program that came with the computer/OS.There is nothing I don't recognize in my in box, out box, sent, drafts, junk, etc.If I read the failed message correctly, the address it was trying to get to is 980643786@qq.com.I googled that and learned nothing..I haven't been to any strange web sites, don't respond to spam of fishing attempts.My concern is that something is trying yo mine info from my system.Any thoughts?Thanks,Robert

BMCM wrote:First incident was yesterday. Have had three today. I am getting notifications that "Mail Delivery Failed". All returns have the same info except for the time stamps, so something is trying to send the one e-mailI've not sent any e-mails yesterday or today, so no reason I should be getting a failure notice.This is on a Mac OS running Safari, and the e-mail program that came with the computer/OS.There is nothing I don't recognize in my in box, out box, sent, drafts, junk, etc.If I read the failed message correctly, the address it was trying to get to is 980643786@qq.com.I googled that and learned nothing..I haven't been to any strange web sites, don't respond to spam of fishing attempts.My concern is that something is trying yo mine info from my system.Any thoughts?Thanks,RobertEmpty your caches. On Safari, go to "Develop" on the top of your web page, scroll down to the"empty caches" and delete.

That is probably someone else sending spam using your return address- if you look at the email, you will see something like this (from a fake bounce I just got)------ This is a copy of the headers of the original message. ------Return-Path: bryantrv@cfl.rr.comReceived: from [14.166.210.104] ([14.166.210.104:63618] helo=cdptpa-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 15/36-14260-008E3F75; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:33:55 +0000From: "Beth Tuico" The return path is one of my addresses, but the ip address has nothing to do with me.Afraid there's nothing you can do about it, but your computer isn't infected.

Chris Bryant wrote:That is probably someone else sending spam using your return address.Afraid there's nothing you can do about it, but your computer isn't infected.+1

It is really easy to use a faked from/return address. Most likely someone else is doing so and you are getting their blowback. It is unlikely you have malware sending this from your computer. That being so there is not much you can do about it.

qq.com is based in China. So a little suspicious? As a precaution, I'd change your email password immediately.

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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Oct 05, 2016
That is probably someone else sending spam using your return address- if you look at the email, you will see something like this (from a fake bounce I just got)

------ This is a copy of the headers of the original message. ------

Return-Path: bryantrv@cfl.rr.com
Received: from [14.166.210.104] ([14.166.210.104:63618] helo=cdptpa-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com)
by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from )
(ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP
id 15/36-14260-008E3F75; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:33:55 +0000
From: "Beth Tuico"

The return path is one of my addresses, but the ip address has nothing to do with me.

Afraid there's nothing you can do about it, but your computer isn't infected.
MarkTwain
Explorer
Oct 05, 2016
BMCM wrote:
First incident was yesterday. Have had three today. I am getting notifications that "Mail Delivery Failed". All returns have the same info except for the time stamps, so something is trying to send the one e-mail

I've not sent any e-mails yesterday or today, so no reason I should be getting a failure notice.

This is on a Mac OS running Safari, and the e-mail program that came with the computer/OS.

There is nothing I don't recognize in my in box, out box, sent, drafts, junk, etc.

If I read the failed message correctly, the address it was trying to get to is 980643786@qq.com.
I googled that and learned nothing..

I haven't been to any strange web sites, don't respond to spam of fishing attempts.

My concern is that something is trying yo mine info from my system.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Robert

Empty your caches. On Safari, go to "Develop" on the top of your web page, scroll down to the"empty caches" and delete.

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