I've gotten a bunch of mailer daemons showing that an email that supposedly was sent by me didn't go through. One in my inbox and a bunch in my spam folder. Each one seems to have a different link they were sending.

A friend also notified me of it and wanted to know if I really sent the email or if I was scammed.

So, now what do I do about this guys?

I tried googling the subject heading but nothing shows up that makes any sense. Grrrrrr

Scott,

The first thing I recommend is go to any site that you have a login for and change that password asap! (ebay, netbanking, any website that you had that same email address registered)

If you want to go the extreme -
Reformat the PC and install new AV Software. There is a chance that a keylogger could be sitting on your PC somewhere as well...

good luck
Nick

Hi Scott

If this is same emailadress as you have in profile here at SZ or your website, it's most probably not
hacked accound but robots that search for email adresses at websites etc that use your adress as senders
reference when distribute spam.
If you use software like Firetrust MailWasher, you can see if that's so when look at the complete header
of the mail.
I can see lots of such spam uses my emailadress from my website, even if change it, it don't take long
before robots steal it again.
I have competely different emailadress used as personal/private to escape this, but when used over longer
period of time and correspond with lots of people, it's alway a risk that it happen again.
The worst thing is that our serious mails goes into recipients spamfolder .......

Cheers
GJ

Btw,
I can see some try post emaladresses in treads and websites by use AT instead of @
but don't know if it works.

There not much you can do really. Email return addresses can be faked easily by viruses so it is unlikely that these emails were really sent from your email account. What is much more likely that someone that has you in their address book has picked up a virus that has then pulled addresses from their address book. Chances are likely that this will simply stop once the victim realises they have a virus and fix it.

I see this myself from time to time where I get sent spam emails supposedly by myself.

WORD OF WARNING

If you are in contact with someone that uses a MAC without security software, make sure you scan any information from them with the latest virus checkers, as while the virus will not affect them, they could unknowingly pass it on to you. (Without security software they would not know it was there)

Bill