strange email-receipt

No,it could be a virus
If you suspect that your computer is being hacked then use a firewall such as zone alarm which offers a free version
Check your system with a spyware program

The unknown emails could be a virus that has been fowarded from the address book unknowingly

donot open emial that you donot know the sender use your anti-virus to scan the email or delete it entirely,opening the email may be hazardous to your computer

Is the message a spam advertisment of some sort? You could have been included in the bcc: (blind copy) field and you will not see your address in the to: field. Alot of spammers do this so you can't see the multitude of people the email went to. I use it sometimes just so people don't have to wade through an extremely large list of recipients.

You can test this yourself by sending an email to someone and putting yourself in the bcc: field. You'll get the email but you will see only the recipient's address in the to: field.

Drbob:>)

This could have been a mass junk mailing. The sender may have put your email address under BCC (blind carbon copy). You would then receive a message even though someone else was in the "To:" window.

i have spyblocker and adaware, do you know a better one? i have norton firewall. is it usefull to search for an ip-adress(the adress of an attacker)?

i have spyblocker and adaware, do you know a better one? i have norton firewall. is it usefull to search for an ip-adress(the adress of an attacker)?

i have nor virus and the mail was coming from africa, the sort of stupid(i say lazy and crazy) people having money to launder... or betray people. always the same type of message. i am the son of.... plus ecowas(organisation) all similar messages.i once received 2 messages, one from the wife and the son of a former dictator. she said the family is in house arrest, but the son was abroad and wanted to visit me....when i wrot that mails are being watched and asked for exact names of the familyi did never get any mail anymore!

Sounds more like a scam to me. Have they asked you for money? Such as: "Our funds are tied up and we cannot access them. You can help, for a percentage of our funds please send a small security deposit."
And of course you would never get the percentage!
I wouldn't even respond, just delete anything with an unknown address when it arrives. Especially AOL, hotmail and yahoo.

Check out myrealbox.com (Novell Net Mail, pared down GroupWise) for a good free e-mail.

It could be Klez virus, which spreads via emails. If your computer is behaving strangely then I suggest you scan your system using updated virus scan software installed in your system. Also, you could visit the following website for free online virus check:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/

Try Spam Punisher to find the spammer's ISP.
You can then generate and send a complaint with this program, and if the Internet Service Provider receives a complaint he usually closes internet access to the spammer.

Web site for Spam Punisher: http://www.spampunisher.com/

Spammers have figured out ways to dump to
a isp and have a copy distributed through out
their email subscription list.

Most of the good isp's are installing blocking
software to combat this

Lee

This question was auto closed due to inactivity