I kept getting returned email messages for several days. I haven't got any in a week. That is until today. I just got 5 of them. I don't even know these people that I am supposedly trying to send these emails too. And it's about saving on prescriptions or some stupid thing. And it says it's from Luna and then my email address. (this one did) My name is not Luna. Is this some kind of email virus?? (I blocked out my email address and the address of the person I was "trying" to send it too) Thank You!

This is one of the ones I received today...

The original message was received at Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:27:39 -0500 (EST)
from [203.156.32.116]


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<*********aol.com>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-ye03.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<*********@aol.com>
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 <********@aol.com>... User unknown


Final-Recipient: RFC822; monkyboy00742024@aol.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; air-ye03.mail.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:28:10 -0500 (EST)


Received: from aol.com ([203.156.32.116]) by rly-ye02.mx.aol.com (v97.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYE22-232402968dc341; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:27:32 -0500
Received: from unknown (41.191.231.86)
by smtp18.yenddx.com with SMTP; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 05:30:25 +0500
Received: from 126.193.111.69 ([126.193.111.69]) by webmail.halftomorrow.com with NNFMP; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:29:39 +0500
Received: from unknown (HELO mtu23.bigping.com) (126.10.51.185)
by smtp-server1.cfdenselr.com with esmtp; 11 Feb 2004 15:28:53 -0500
Received: from [157.91.87.191] by mx03.listsystemsf.net with esmtp; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:28:07 +1000
Received: from mx.reskind.net ([62.247.54.61])
by relay37.vosimerkam.net with esmtp; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:27:21 -0400
Message-ID: <87f001c3f0b3$099444f0$63b401c8@*********>
From: "Luna"
To: "KERMAN74" <*********@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Your symptoms m`ay Improve before the condi_ton is fully trea.ted. ?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:23:44 -0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_7CF_8660_C576AE0E.F0166D61"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000
X-AOL-IP: 203.156.32.116
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 1:XXX:XX
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 1

Your email address is probably being used to send spam emails out. It happens a lot and there is little you can do other than report it to AOL and that is nearly worse than the mails being sent from your name. A virus can do this, but there is a script that can be used as well and it has nothing to do with a virus. I would go the trouble of reporting it to AOL an not worry a lot about it.

Along with the information Hugh gave you, play it safe and change your AOL password. Somebody may have that info and is using your AOL account.

Hey thanks. I never thought about the spam thing. I reported to AOL as spam already. I reported it and it got sent directly to my spam folder.

And I never thought about changing my password either. I usually try and change it every once in awhile justfor this reason but it has been a very long time since I have.

Thanks...now all I have to is remember how to change my password LOL

Thanks again

To change you password on AOL, go to keyword password

Just a thought
I had a few of these in my AOL mailbox recently but they were in my Opinion deliberately generated to appear like they were "Bounced" messages (New trend of spamming?)
I know by looking in my "sent" mailbox what I have reported,so unless you have sent an email direct to a website you are better than 99% likely not to get a bounce Off AOL
The AOL practice is to generate an "Mailbox Full" message instantly if it's bounced(Off an AOL system address) or another message if off another AOL members address such as "This member is not accepting Mail"As to Websites other than AOL's internal system, the time it take to generate a Bounce message can be anything from 1 minute to perhaps an hour or 2? So if you are backtracking through that message for the original Post time (making allowances for Time zones(Maths get complex here ))
Bottom line (moral) If you haven't sent it, it's not yours to worry about..just delete it
If it repeats then Click the "Report Spam" button and give the people at AOL something to do