Why

speedball1 · Jun 5, 2009, 07:14 AM

Am I getting these posts?

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)‏
From: [email protected]
Sent: Fri 6/05/09 9:19 AM
To: [email protected]
2 attachments
Details00... txt (0.7 KB), Ehi, mht (2.2 KB)

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. [email protected]@gmail.com

--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Ehi,
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:18:55 -0400

Ehi,
Come stai ultimamente?
Vorrei presentarvi una buona compagnia e il suo sito web e: <www.huawei888.com>. Essa e in grado di offrire tutti I tipi di prodotti elettronici di cui avete bisogno per essere in maggio, come computer portatili, GPS, TV LCD, telefoni cellulari, ps3, MP3 / 4, motocicli ecc...
Potete prendere un po 'di tempo per avere il controllo, ci deve essere qualcosa di interessante che si desidera acquistare.
Contatto.

EMAIL: [email protected]
MSN: [email protected]
TEL: +86-021-29489919
WEB: www.huawei888.com
Spero che lei possa avere divertimento per l'acquisto di questa societa!
Saluti

I have got over 300 of them in the last week in my Hotmail account. Some in Spanish and some in French. I haven't opened any of the attachments . 16 more just came in in the last two minutes.
Why am I getting them? Who's sending the? Who do I make a complaint to?And how do I stop them?
ScottJem; Scotty, I sent you a PM. Please respond. Thanks, tom aka speedball1

N0help4u · Jun 5, 2009, 07:34 AM

Most likely it is a scam. They are trying to sell laptops, mp3's, TV's, motorcycles and some other things.

leavethdoorajar · Jun 5, 2009, 07:36 AM

It sounds like spam to me. You put your email in the wrong place and someone let it slip to a spammer. Now you can either ignore them, and just delete them; you can create a new email and desert the spam-filled one; or maybe you can write to your email service about the problem

morgaine300 · Jun 5, 2009, 06:23 PM

I'm wondering if it's a virus. Notice it's showing you as the sender, with messages failing to recipients, as though you sent it when you didn't. And it's coming from postmaster at Hotmail where your email is. That's something viruses will do - send junk out "from" you when it's not you. Then when they can't be delivered, it comes back to you. Which would also account for getting 300 in one week.

If that's the case, not much you can do, unless Hotmail has a virus filter and I'm not sure it's that fancy. (If you're downloading to an email client, do you have a virus scanner than scans downloaded email?)

Just delete them, and for future reference always protect your own account. You won't be able to help all the stuff like this. I get them occasionally. (Or a lot when there's a new outbreak.)

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