As I said, you weren’t involved, it’s not your fault, and there’s nothing you can do. If random strangers complain you’re sending them spam, you can point them at this article. Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do to stop it.Īll you can really do is mark the bounce message as spam and let your email program handle it from there. In fact, it had nothing to do with you other than that your email address appeared in a spammer’s database.
None of this happened on your machine or your account. The email delivery system says, “Hey, I can’t deliver this email I’m going to return it to the sender.” Because the sender information on the “From:” line looks like it was you, you get the bounce message. If they send email to an address that no longer exists, never existed, 1 or recognizes the message as spam, it bounces automatically. Since spammers are simply blasting email out to huge databases of email addresses, they have no idea whether those addresses are legitimate or not. They probably have no idea who you are, and may mark it as spam. If the email address the spammer sent it to belongs to a real person, they may see email that looks like it came from you. It’s easy to do, and spammers have been doing it for a long time. They write messages using your email address and maybe even your name in the “From:” address. “ From spoofing” allows them to do exactly that. In other words, they want it to look like it’s coming from you.
Spammers want their email to look like it’s coming from someone the reader might trust. Why did I get a bounce message?īounces for emails you didn’t send are the result of spammers trying to get people to open their spam and click on the links in the spam message. There’s nothing to be done, as it was never your doing to begin with. If that’s you, you may get bounce messages when that spam is identified as spam by its recipient or when it is sent to invalid email addresses. Spam often appears to have come from someone who did not send it at all.
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