josterD opened this issue on Dec 09, 2010 ยท 15 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 09 December 2010 at 11:05 PM
Your account has been hijacked. The delivery failure notifications are because a spammer is sending mail claiming it is FROM YOU. Some of the addresses being spammed are unreachable, and the notifications are coming to you because the systems receiving the mail were told it was from you. They weren't from you, but they were sent from your account.
Close it.
Get a new one.
Do not give the address to anybody. Use spamgourmet.com. Create forwarding addresses for every list you need to get on. If one of those addresses gets leaked and ends up on a mailing list, you just shut that address off.
I have had my address leaked by Renderosity, Orbitz, TJ Maxx, and by a few Rendo users whose accounts got hijacked like yours. In each case, the account that got leaked or hijacked was identifiable, because each of the forwarding addresses I created was unique, and I had given only to that one person or company.
Knowing who got hijacked, I just shut down that alias and gave them a new one to reach me.
Each of the aliases I create, I put the name of the person or company I gave it to. That way I know who got hit.
In the past, all my email addresses got filled with junk by others who got hijacked. Now since NOBODY has my address except spamgourmet.com, I have had the same account, 100% spam free, for 8 years.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)