Postmaster Emails in Junk

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Postmaster Emails in Junk

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I am receiving very regular (once/hour) emails from Postmaster addresses from domains such as 126.com and 163.com, which are ending up in my Junk. The emails suggest that an email I have tried to send to addresses at these domains have been rejected. I am not sending any emails to these addresses, nor are any such emails in my Sent folder. The emails are not in English, and do not use English characters. I suspect that my email address has been erroneously included on some spam email, and the rejection email is thus coming to me. My guess is that this is likely not a sign that my email account has been compromised but please could someone confirm this for me here?

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Hello DeucesStu

Hi, I'm Karl and will be happy to help you today.

What you have described sounds very much that your email address as been "hijacked" and the spammer is "spoofing" the emails being sent out to look like it's coming from your account. There is nothing you can do about it other then wait it out until the spammer moves on to another <hijacked email address> (and I assure you that they will)

The following is a standard reply I give to those who ask about a sudden increase in <spam> and <unexpected> log in attempts which you may find of interest

The usual source of a sudden increase in failed login attempts or spam mail received is that the email address was harvested by a hacker who breached a data base on a website where you subscribed to something. That database gets repeatedly sold to other hackers/spammers on the dark web.

Many people think that hackers penetrate the actual Microsoft servers to gain access to email accounts when that isn't the case. Instead they gain access to an actual account via any number of other ways including phishing emails.

You can check to see if the email address comes up on a breached database on the following website created/run by Microsoft MVP Troy Hunt.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Pwned websites

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Epik

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