I keep getting spam mail addressed to "[email protected]"

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Guest

I keep getting spam mail addressed to some other name @lewhagood.com
My name is lew hagood and it comes into my Bellsouth email address of
(e-mail address removed) as undeliverable mail, but I never sent it and have
no idea what it is or how to stop it. Any ideas?
 
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Brian Tillman

lewhagood said:
I keep getting spam mail addressed to some other name @lewhagood.com
My name is lew hagood and it comes into my Bellsouth email address of
(e-mail address removed) as undeliverable mail, but I never sent it
and have no idea what it is or how to stop it. Any ideas?

Chances are your mail address has been harvested from the PC of someone
whose address book contains it and it is being used as the sender address of
junk mail. Since the message appears to come from you, when it is
improperly addressed and the remote server bounces it, the bounce comes to
you. There's little you can do about it except, perhaps, use an antispam
add-in like http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
 

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