An unusual amount of MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com messages

I went to an email account I visit once a month. I found a few hundred MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com messages. I put them all in spam, but now my spam account is filling up with them. I've gotten 200 of them in a 15 minute period. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what the nature of these emails are, if they are safe or unsafe to open, and what worst-case-scenario might happen if I did open one. Thanks for reading.

 

Did you try selecting any one of the emails from MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com and then clicking Spam? With any luck, you should never see any more email from MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com in your Inbox.

 

I did as you suggested, and it's been a day, still, they pile up. If I delete them they pile in faster, and they keep sneaking back into the inbox too. Now I have to figure out how to save the password in saved passwords. Making a new thread for that. It's been an ongoing problem.

 

I've never thought to try and send email with a different return. Would there be any clue who? I'm sure they're under the auspices of a proxy. What would be the benefit of using me as their return? They don't have to clear the evil daemon spam?

 

They must not want return mail. What would somebody send without the desire for return communication? A virus?

 

Advertiser's don't need an email response. They're simply trying to convince you of something such as: click this link, visit this site, call this phone number, open this attachment, ours is better, mine's bigger, blah blah blah, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum ... (<-grrrrr->)

 

Well, I guess that isn't so bad. It makes me want to experiment though. I wonder what would happen if I were to reply to some of the spam I get; would it go to somebodies email account who is wondering why they get all sorts of evil daemon spam. I wish someone would reply to one of the ones sent by me, but who looks at that ****? They just delete it. Do desperate advertisers get enough responses to make it worth it?

 

If you reply, the person on the other end now knows your email address, and the fact that it is valid. And they could now sell the fact to others. Probably best to simply ignore SPAM.

 

If I reply would both the dupe mail address and the real sender be alerted?

 

99.99% of the time, SPAM doesn't contain the email address of the real sender.

Why? Because:

1) they don't need, nor want a response and

2) they don't want anyone to know who, or where they are.

All they want is to do is spew SPAM all over everyone's Inbox and leave.

 

So if I hit reply, would it go back to the dupe? I'm going to try it now. Well, I hit reply on 6 spam messages, and the return address name seemed very connected to the the message. Example:

From: lonely wife <thematchmaker@factomento.com>

 

Go ahead, click Send. It's your email address. <-shrug->

Wikipedia: Spam (electronic)

 

I don't know if this is relevant, but after reading the above posts I would check your PC for a trojan/spambot or other malware. If you don't run MBAM I really recommend downloading the freeware version & doing a full scan.