[Hidden-tech] Can anyone explain what is going on here and what I should do about it?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:23:59 -0400 Shel Horowitz <shel at shelhorowitz.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Below is a forwarded non-delivery message to an address I've never heard of
> and seemingly in response to something sent by someone I've never heard of.
> I don't see that they are spoofing my email address. Can anyone explain why
> I am getting these and if I need to do anything? I got a bunch of them
> today.

Somewhere in the original message there was a header referencing your E-Mail
address. Probably one of Reply-To: or Errors-To: or Sender: or something like
that. OR the message was posted with a 'Mail From:' command using your
address, even though the From: header in the message says something else.
Basically *someone* is having way too much fun messing with one or more SMTP
server(s), and thus managing to bombard you with junk mail.


> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon at googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 8:16 AM
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> To: <shel at shelhorowitz.com>
> 
> 
> [image: Error Icon]
> Address not found
> Your message wasn't delivered to *many at birdseyedeal.com* because the
> address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.
> LEARN MORE <https://support.google.com/mail/?p=DisabledUser>
> The response was:
> 
> The email account that you tried to reach is disabled. Learn more at
> https://support.google.com/mail/?p=DisabledUser f2sor8972495wro.20 - gsmtp
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: friend at myip19.masterload.loan
> To: many at alias16.per2domain.live
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:37:04 +0000
> Subject:
> Et ut
> 
> X-Attachment-Id: 1699b44f2b2d3f2f3341
> 
> 
> This message contains data in an unrecognized format, image/png,
> which is being decoded and written to the file named "/home/heller/Mail/Attachments/5-icon.png".
> If you do not want this data, you probably should delete that file.
> Wrote file /home/heller/Mail/Attachments/5-icon.png
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
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