Strange Emails

[Graueradler]

I have been receiving many totally blank appearing emails. Below is the source information. They are flagged by "Mailwasher" so unless one hits the window between the time I've processed mail in Mailwasher and downloaded to Outlook, none are getting to my computer but they are a nusance. What is the purpose of these things and any suggestions on stopping them? Suddenlink is my ISP.

Return-Path: <xrvqnahd@yahoo.com>
Received: from edge05.suddenlink.net ([58.252.120.241])
by imta01.suddenlink.net
(InterMail vM.7.05.02.03 201-2174-114-109-20070208) with ESMTP
id <20071031143625.TFLW26998.imta01.suddenlink.net@edge05.suddenlink.net>;
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:25 -0500
Received: from [208.180.40.132] (really [58.252.120.241])
by edge05.suddenlink.net
(InterMail vG.2.02.00.00 201-2161-120-101-20051020) with SMTP
id <20071031143624.REVY3318.edge05.suddenlink.net@[208.180.40.132]>;
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:24 -0500
Received: from 124.44.234.248 by 208.180.40.132; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:31:40 -0100
Message-ID: <20071031143625.TFLW26998.imta01.suddenlink.net@edge05.suddenlink.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:25 -0500

 

[wbarnhill]

I have been receiving many totally blank appearing emails. Below is the source information. They are flagged by "Mailwasher" so unless one hits the window between the time I've processed mail in Mailwasher and downloaded to Outlook, none are getting to my computer but they are a nusance. What is the purpose of these things and any suggestions on stopping them? Suddenlink is my ISP.

Return-Path: <xrvqnahd@yahoo.com>
Received: from edge05.suddenlink.net ([58.252.120.241])
by imta01.suddenlink.net
(InterMail vM.7.05.02.03 201-2174-114-109-20070208) with ESMTP
id <20071031143625.TFLW26998.imta01.suddenlink.net@edge05.suddenlink.net>;
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:25 -0500
Received: from [208.180.40.132] (really [58.252.120.241])
by edge05.suddenlink.net
(InterMail vG.2.02.00.00 201-2161-120-101-20051020) with SMTP
id <20071031143624.REVY3318.edge05.suddenlink.net@[208.180.40.132]>;
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:24 -0500
Received: from 124.44.234.248 by 208.180.40.132; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:31:40 -0100
Message-ID: <20071031143625.TFLW26998.imta01.suddenlink.net@edge05.suddenlink.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:36:25 -0500

More than likely a spammer testing for active accounts. The secret's in the IP addresses.

208.180.40.132 - A suddenlink address, true, but....

124.44.234.248 - Asia/Pacific network address
58.252.120.241 - Asia/Pacific network address

Sadly, nothing to be done to really stop spammers from stumbling on your account.

 

[battmain]

You may find the amount of spam increases when you look at the messages. The most amusing ones are the ones with your own email as the sender.