Andilinks
09-16-2002, 01:35 PM
Last week my broadband was out for almost 18 hours so I opened an AOL account as a backup (hey, 45 free days). Almost from the first day I began receiving "MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com" returns, spam that I never sent. Not only was it spam, but it was the very grossest porn spam.
I began complaining immediately to AOL TOSemail1, and had an online conversation with a tech rep. AOL claims that it must be a trojan horse on my system (eTrust EZ scan says no) stealing my password. Unfortunately I used "Andilinks" in part of the screen name and it is the main name, so I can't change the name. Needless to say I'm distressed that my name is associated with these mailings. I've changed the pw twice and these returns seem to be tapering off, but now another variety is appearing. Short of cancelling AOL is there anything I can do about this? I would have cancelled the AOL immediately but doubt that it would stop the use of my name, just stop the returns.
Andi (most recent below...)
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Return-Path: <andilinks02@aol.com>
Received: from 200.161.76.95 (HELO aol.com) (200.161.76.95)
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Received: from unknown (46.203.232.180)
by mx.loxsystems.net with smtp; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:41:25 -0300
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From: <andilinks02@aol.com>
To: <famholmes@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ewrigbr549@yahoo.com>,
<elaine-hsu@yahoo.com>,
<emmanuelcc@yahoo.com>
Subject:
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:13:09 -0100
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I began complaining immediately to AOL TOSemail1, and had an online conversation with a tech rep. AOL claims that it must be a trojan horse on my system (eTrust EZ scan says no) stealing my password. Unfortunately I used "Andilinks" in part of the screen name and it is the main name, so I can't change the name. Needless to say I'm distressed that my name is associated with these mailings. I've changed the pw twice and these returns seem to be tapering off, but now another variety is appearing. Short of cancelling AOL is there anything I can do about this? I would have cancelled the AOL immediately but doubt that it would stop the use of my name, just stop the returns.
Andi (most recent below...)
X-Track: 0: 100
Return-Path: <andilinks02@aol.com>
Received: from 200.161.76.95 (HELO aol.com) (200.161.76.95)
by mta517.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2002 00:43:23 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from unknown (46.203.232.180)
by mx.loxsystems.net with smtp; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:41:25 -0300
Received: from unknown (175.17.24.91)
by smtp4.cyberecschange.com with smtp; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:28:26 -0400
Reply-To: <andilinks02@aol.com>
Message-ID: <024a47e65b4a$4485e6c1$3cc47cc7@xyvbfo>
From: <andilinks02@aol.com>
To: <famholmes@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ewrigbr549@yahoo.com>,
<elaine-hsu@yahoo.com>,
<emmanuelcc@yahoo.com>
Subject:
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:13:09 -0100
MiME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C5_20C43A2E.B6201A22"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118
Importance: Normal
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Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
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