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Bogus emails are being sent out to my contacts and I am receiving error messages (40 per day). What can I do?

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RabbitOwl
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This is an example of what I get many per day:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: 

 mollie15cat@yahoo.com
   ":fail: Domain haasome.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (150) allowed. Message discarded."


Reporting-MTA: dns; box295.bluehost.com

Action: failed Final-Recipient: rfc822;mollie15cat@yahoo.com Status: 5.0.0


ForwardedMessage.eml Subject: news from me From: Sherrie A. <my email address> Date: 6/12/2016 9:05 AM To: "mollie15cat" <mollie15cat@yahoo.com>

Hello,


I've got some interesting news for you, you're gonna be pleaseantly surprised. Read more here http://cethyzotro.lechatexotique.com/lnkzepwg


Later, Sherrie A (Includes an attachment)

This is an example of what I get many per day: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: mollie15cat@yahoo.com ":fail: Domain haasome.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (150) allowed. Message discarded." Reporting-MTA: dns; box295.bluehost.com Action: failed Final-Recipient: rfc822;mollie15cat@yahoo.com Status: 5.0.0 ForwardedMessage.eml Subject: news from me From: Sherrie A. <my email address> Date: 6/12/2016 9:05 AM To: "mollie15cat" <mollie15cat@yahoo.com> Hello, I've got some interesting news for you, you're gonna be pleaseantly surprised. Read more here http://cethyzotro.lechatexotique.com/lnkzepwg Later, Sherrie A (Includes an attachment)

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christ1
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A spammer used your email address. What you do get are the undeliverable errors. It will stop at some point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)

You can create a filer until then. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)