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What is spoofing?
If you are receiving bounce back messages from emails that you HAVEN'T sent you have probably been 'spoofed' Email spoofing is when the sender changes the name in an outgoing email so that it looks like the email came from somewhere or someone else. This practice is often used by spammers to stop people finding out who they are. It also means that when the spam mail is rejected by the addressee's mail server, the bounce back message goes to whoever was specified in the outgoing mail rather than to the spammer themselves. At present there is nothing we can do to avoid this nuisance. If you have been spoofed, please simply delete the bounce back messages. It doesn't mean that anyone has accessed your email account. You will probably find you receive a few for a short while and then they will stop.
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