Hi Mike,
could the genuine address not be a victim of the same spoofing of
their email account that happens to me though? People all over the
world must be getting spam emails that appear to have come from my
account but they certainly aren't from me.
After a few minutes lateral thinking I've come up with a quick and
dirty solution to most of this, I simply filter everything that
isn't specifically addressed to me and delete it from the mail
serverbefore its downloaded to me (anyone else with this problem
using microsoft outlook I can tell you how to do this). This gets
rid of all the spoof replies and undeliverables, which were adding
up to 75+ a day.
This is the only Yahoo group I'm in, I'm not registered with eBay,
PayPal or any of those sort of things.

John
ps. Anyone still putting the trap out?


--- In cornwallmothgroup@..., "pengellycross"
<pencross@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All, I,ve been a member for a couple years now and this is the
> only yahoo site i use, I can,t really say the spam influx i used
to
> get was caused by signing on here but more to using ebay and
> definately paypal!.. one trick i did learn ages abo was to keep my
> main email addy for serious stuff. adn use a hotmail addy for
> everything else the spam filters on hotmail only letting through
> people on your allow list, that and the panda antivirus i use has
now
> almost eliminated all the spam that heads this way.
> regards
> Mike.
>
> PS if you check those tipsters email addresses John sometimes you
> find a genuine addy there i had one the other week and sent the
email
> to thier MD telling him soneone was using thier isp for spamming..
>