Delivery Status Notification (failure) - but I didn't send email

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I have got an email in Outlook Express with Subject "Delivery Status Notification (failure)" from "postmaster @ holyblossom . org" with the following text:

"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

dublinadublin@holyblossom.org"

but I've never heard of them, let alone emailed them.
Is this just some sort of spam or is there something funny going on with my computer?
 
I wouldn't worry about it - I get this quite frequently. The issue is more likely to be with a PC other than your own.
 
I've received a few of these messages in the recent past - is there any danger in opening the message itself (i.e would it carry a virus within it)? I am a recent convert to Mailwasher (thanks to AAM!), so tend to delete things that look a bit off.
 
If you're getting a few of these, chances are someone (somebot) is spoofing your email address on spam they are sending.
Leo
 
Thanks Leo, I've seen a spam or two which purports to come from me so somebot has grabbed my account name!
 
Leo said:
If you're getting a few of these, chances are someone (somebot) is spoofing your email address on spam they are sending.
Leo
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Luckily for me it's just the 1 to date, but what should someone do if they are getting a lot of them?
 
TreeTiger said:
Luckily for me it's just the 1 to date, but what should someone do if they are getting a lot of them?
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Change your e-mail address.

Once you get on one spam list, it's only a matter of time before the spammer wil trade yours with others and you'll get more and more. So, once you get more than one or two a day, it's time to move.

E-mail is rapidly going out of fashion because of this. I do far more social stuff in IM now.
 
Sure, but IM has numerous drawbacks so will never replace email.
 
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