I have been getting phony emails allegedly from other authors. So far return addresses have included Emma-no-knickers, Blairbreck, Pagan, Dino Dave, and others. These usually have a snippet of text from a story in the subject line, but no text in the body of the message. Received size is usually around 200k. They apparently contain a virus, but since I use a 3rd party email service, it's filtered out before I get it. On one occasion I had a message returned as undeliverable. It was allegedly to another of the authors on this site, but I never sent it.

Has anyone else received any of these things? Posted below is the full header from one of them. The header varies, but the last line, "X-Apparently-From: Frdanl@aol.com" is usually the same.

Harold


To: Haroldx@email.com
Cc:
Subject: DO NOT CHANGE!
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:29:11 -0400 (EDT)
Return-Path: <tokyo@wb-japan.co.jp>
Delivered-To: haroldx@email.com
Received: (qmail 10323 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2002 20:33:52 -0000
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Message-Id: <200209162029.g8GKTBJ297194@logs-tl.proxy.aol.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=LwY2387J8jWT7gtL1281S4X3n05
X-Apparently-From: Frdanl@aol.com