RE: [PCTECH] Some one is spoofing my email

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Sounds like you are pretty locked down. More than likely what has happened
is that someone you know has your email address in THEIR address book and
their PC has been compromised (i.e. has one of the spam viruses that
harvest's the address book and goes to town).

There is not much you can do about it...
 
Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:42 PM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCTECH] Some one is spoofing my email

Looking for any ideas.  Some one is spoofing my email address as the return 
for a BUNCH of spam.  I am getting inundated with returns for spam that I 
have not originated.  Is there a way (short of email address  change) to 
find and stop these creeps?  Is there some entity that I can report them 
too that will help me stop this form of identity theft?

I have scanned my pc for virus presence - and found nothing.  I am behind a 
fire wall both here and at home,  and I see not traffic coming from me, so 
I don't think that my PC has been hijacked.  My ISP requires my password to 
use the smtp outgoing server, and I have changed my password for my email, 
so I don't think they are bouncing anything off my ISP outgoing server.

Any other steps you can think of that I can take to protect myself?

Thanks in advance!

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Jim Essinger