Re: Returned emails not sent

Hi all, just received an email regarding returned email undeliverable, I've had a lot of these recently, must be some sort of scam or maybe some way of sending a virus as I never recognise any of them, in fact I haven't even sent them, this is a cut and paste of one of them anyone throw any light on the subject, are these mailer sites genuine and if so how am I receiving a return without having sent it in the first place, I dont even know a Owain88 @AOL.com, in fact I dont know anyone with an email address from AOL, I also get emails with regard to me supposed to be sending a virus, please see below.

The original message was received at Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:59:30 -0400
(EDT)
from cpc1-rdng8-6-0-cust201.winn.cable.ntl.com [81.110.73.201]


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with
its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors
-----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail
could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which
is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<owain88@aol.com>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-yi04.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<owain88@aol.com>
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 <owain88@aol.com>... User unknown



Message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-yi05.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:59:30 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; owain88@aol.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; air-yi04.mail.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:59:47 -0400 (EDT)

Received: from aol.com (cpc1-rdng8-6-0-cust201.winn.cable.ntl.com
[81.110.73.201]) by rly-yi05.mx.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id
MAILRELAYINYI56-7d240ca00ff25a; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:59:18 -0400
From: pauldebbage@yahoo.ie
To: owain88@aol.com
Subject: Hi
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:59:19 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_000021A4.00001E28"
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
X-AOL-IP: 81.110.73.201
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:XXX:XX
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0
Message-ID: <200406111459.7d240ca00ff25a@rly-yi05.mx.aol.com>

 

This is the ay one of the latest Viruses operates by Spoofing email Address. Most of these emails contain attachment.

NEVER open the attachments just delete the file mail immediately.

 

More info on this kind of stuff:

http://majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29427&highlight=spoofing

 

Thankyou