Strange email delivery failures

[Richard Sinkler]

Starting last night, I have been bombarded with like 20 email delivery failure notices from hotmail (I do not use Hotmail). None of the addresses are addresses from my address book. Every one has a different mail recipient. They all have a Windows Live friend request from the same person and the requests come in different languages. Below is the text from one of the emails. There is an attachment that I won't open of course.

How can I stop these? I don't think my Yahoo email account was hacked, as the messages come from Hotmail and no one in my address book has received any weird emails from me.

Text of email:

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
1

Hide Details
FROM:
postmaster@mail.hotmail.com

TO:
I BLOCKED MY EMAIL FROM THIS POST
Message flagged Friday, February 10, 2012 8:55 AM
----- Forwarded Message -----

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

kete_nuk_e_ka_bere_as_shekspiri@hotmail.com



wygant sanders wants to be your friend on Windows Live
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[Wiz Feinberg]

Hotmail hides some of the header details, regarding recipients. Your email account has been forged into the "Reply-To" address and is receiving the bounces form invalid Hotmail accounts.

In spam-land, this is known as a "Joe Job."

There is nothing you can do about this.

[Ken Lang]

I had the same thing a few weeks ago, for about 3 weeks. Off and on. Wiz told me the same thing.

Fortunately whoever was doing it stopped and now it is not a problem.

I cannot say what I feel about scammers, spammers and whatever else lurks out there.

[Richard Sinkler]

Thanks guys. I will wait to see what happens. It has already seemed to have slowed down or stopped.