Re: OT phishing help

Thanks Sandy....at this point I can log on enough to delete. But I'm going
to be gone visiting my mother for a couple weeks, so I may have the bounce
problem. Sigh....does ANYONE ever answer these scams to even make it worth
it to the spammer???

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Kathyl (KJ)
remove "nospam" before mchsi
http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz
"Sandy" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:invalid-9390C9.07340930052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <PJT%j.132327$TT4.94226@attbi_s22>,
"KJ" <KJoger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I thought maybe I could wait out the problem I have with someone sending
spam using my email address. I'm getting hundreds (thousands) of
returned
emails in my inboxes. Some of you had this happen to them, but I'm not
sure
I saw what the final results were. Will it taper off? Or do I have to
(god
forbid!) get a new email address??? OH I hope not!!!!


Kathyl, this happened to me a few years ago. I was getting so many of
this sort of thing (spam, phishing stuff, etc.) that my mailbox was
filling up several times a day and causing "real" email to bounce. At
that point, there was no option but to change my email addy. Your
situation may still be manageable, though. If your mailbox isn't so full
that you're losing the stuff you really do want to get, you may be able
to wait it out. Best of luck!

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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net


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