Peculiar bulk mail

[stevoman 2]

Hi guys,

Firstly by way of some background I am just about a COMPLETE novice as far as computers goes,having only been able to aquire mine 9 months ago,and am trying to learn every day.

Well my question to you is as follows.

During the last 2 weeks I have been bombarded with peculiar messages in my "Bulk" section,as many as 8 at a time per day.They differ only in their names but the message are always on the same topic,(Mail delivery failure).Below is an example.

 

nan_um_koo@hotmail.com

Mail delivery failure (followed by my yahoo name and address.

Underneath this is a further directive as follows.

 

If the message will not displayed follow the link to read the delived message.

Recieved message available at www.yahoo.com.au/inbox/ (followed by my details.

 

Upon following this directive the so called message just disappears,so I have been just deleting it,however I am curious about it all.

Thanks for any info.

[dotcom_OD 0]

Stevoman, Bulk mail is just that...mass mailing to anyone who is bored and wants to read them. There should be a 1800 DONT SPAM ME phone number.

I do not read or open bulk mail as some may have some suspicious code or demon dialer which will latch on to your computer and can harm it with either a virus or a program.

Stevo, if you are not sure who sent you the email or it is not directly in your INBOX, delete it and do not open it. Save your computer and yourself some heartache by not getting a virus/program.

 

If you need any help with removing bots, pop up ads etc, let me know too and I can give some advice there. Take it easy.

[Mescalito 19]

Ditto the above comments. One of the more popular scam approaches these days is to mask destructive e-mails as legitimate e-mails that bounced back. I.e.- if you were to send an e-mail to an address that either doesn't work any longer, has a full mailbox, etc., it will trigger what's called a mailer daemon. That means the receiving mail server kicks your mail back to you with a message to that effect. Spammers, scammers, phishers, virus writers, etc. are all now using this to disguise stuff that they send out. You get an e-mail made to look like one you could have sent that was kicked back, but when you open it -- BAM! -- a virus, spyware, etc.

 

Don't even open them.

[stevoman 2]

Thanks guys they are now down to 2 a day and I simply delete them straight the way .

[wrassell 0]

Never open attachments without good up to date virus protection and even then sometimes it can be dangerous. For spam best thing to do is ignore them, if you reply to their remove link it only tells them that yours is a real e-mail adress. Get a junk e-mail adress to use for filling out forms so they will send their junk there. Try to tell your friends not to include you with a bunch of other names when sending you jokes, especially the ones that incourage you to send the same thing to 20 other people. Be very careful in internet cafes key loggers can record all your keystrokes like passwords and credit card info. Also ditto on all the above...

[stevoman 2]

:chogdee2Thanks again guys for all of your input and advice.Pleased to say that the offending mail ceased about 3 weeks ago with no seeable problems.

5 days now till wheels up.

[Eneukman 1]

I keep my anti-virus definitions up to date, but last year I copped a brand new virus - not sure how as I am cautious about opening e-mails etc - which disabled my anti-virus software whenever I went on line. It was a bastard to get rid off but I managed it in the end.

 

Alan