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Sometime ago, I posted an “offtopic” post regarding my email being hijacked. I had 3000 over “undelivereable” mails in my webmail mailbox. When I saw that, I was baffled. No way I could have sent that many emails in just a few days. I took the pain of deleting all those “rubbish” and contacted my hosting provider. I was afraid that my webmail account might have been hacked. Turned out it wasn’t.Thank goodness. I still do get these unwanted emails now, but at least not bombarded with thousands in a few days.

Only today I read about this “undeliverable” spam emails at privacycouncil.org. Turned out, this thing happens rather frequent, and to many people. Legitimate email addresses getting hijacked by spammers to send their spam emails. Mine included. This kind of spamming is called backscatter spam. I would never have realized this if I have not found the article there.

Even though now I feel relieved that I am not alone in this, and my webmail is not hacked, I still despise the thought that my email address is being used by some “buffoons” to spam peoples’ inboxes. They even use my email address to make fake purchases on ebay! Can you believe it?

I saw an interesting offer at the Privacy Council website. For $9.00 they can help to wipe out your contact details from all major mailing lists. Perhaps this will help protect your email address from being manipulated by spammers. Save you time from having to deal with this sort of annoyance.