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Thread ID: 52277 2004-12-16 00:58:00 Blank emails received..and ??sent?? MrBeef (342) Press F1
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303486 2004-12-16 00:58:00 Hi there, on our dial-up account email address we keep receiving blank emails. Abosolutely nothing in them. Sometimes they are from our account itself and sometimes it is from xtra saying mail delivery failed to email addresses we don't even know. Whats going on? Virus? or some spammer using our addy???


running Outlook Express 6 on win2k all updated.

Oh an AVG 7 email scanner wont run properly, OE just spits back an error bout password etc...


gotta go, soz so breif.
MrBeef (342)
303487 2004-12-16 01:04:00 Spam.

Not really from your ISP, but from spammers trying to make you open the attachments. An evil but common trick.
george12 (7)
303488 2004-12-16 06:19:00 thing is there is no attachment, except for the mail delivery failure and all the attachment was was a blank email from US MrBeef (342)
303489 2004-12-16 06:32:00 Probably viruses being sent out by someone with your address in their address book, hence you getting the bounces.

Happens to most people.
ninja (1671)
303490 2004-12-16 07:22:00 if in doubt, just delete :) MartynC (5610)
303491 2004-12-16 07:39:00 if in doubt, just delete :)
If you right click on it and look at properties you will see from whence it came.
Cicero (40)
303492 2004-12-16 08:27:00 yeh well sometimes, I think it does come from us. Other times yeh it comes from addresses we don't even know. But there are no virus's in the them. MrBeef (342)
303493 2004-12-17 05:38:00 Get one or two a day, best policy is to run Mailwasher and as suggested delete before you even download. You can find the origins but it is an absolute waste of time, just delete and accept that there are some brainless morons in this world. FrankS (257)
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