I've also seen those "kickback" emails be used as a way to try to trick someone into accepting a virus. Often those "failure" mail emails that appear to be kickbacks, include an attachment. The body of the email tries to convince you that this email is being sent "back" to you and usually includes a few lines of text meant to encourage you to download and open the attachment. Spammer programs allow any email address, fake or real, to appear to be the sender, and "mailer daemon" from various apparently legit email providers, well known antivirus or security program companies (such as "Symantec Security") or other attention getting addresses and/or subject headings such as "Your Account", or "Important Account'Password Information" etc.
Do a thorough scan with your antivirus and antspyware/antiadware programs to be sure your system is clean, and don't download or open any kind of email attachment without doing a virus scan on it first. Email providers such as Yahoo email, use antivirus programs that generally detect these viruses being sent by this method and won't allow them to be downloaded.
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by: grbladesPosted on 2007-06-13 at 01:12:14ID: 19272743
A spammer is using your email address as the from: address when sending our their spam.
What sort of email account do you have?
Do you own your own domain?
Do you have a 'catch all' address configured?
Generally there is not much you can do and practically nothing you can do if you dont have your own domain. If you do have your own domain then you can implement things like SPF to discourage spammers from using your addresses but that wont stop them completely.