What I don't understand is how can my email send out stuff like this and I get it back telling me the status and I never sent it out in the first place.
I get many of them with many other emails.
I've had it happen to me. The person uses your email address (not your email account etc) and sends out spam to random addresses.
The ones that don't exist bounce back to you because your email addy was used (spoofed) as the sender.
Nothing to worry about
Congrats on your anniversity btw
I have had this quite a bit. If you use your email address to send out newsletters, the spammers will target this address for use in spoofing, since the offer will probably go to recipients of your newsletter, who will also have added your inbound address to their "whitelist".
Addresses placed in public view, such as internet fora, are also harvested.
Interestingly though, I receive FAR MORE SPAM for my primary email address, which I GIVE OUT TO CASINOS, and OTHER ONLINE COMPANIES. This tells me that by far the biggest route by which spammers get email addresses is through other entities selling on your email details to <ahem>"selected third parties who you might be interested in hearing from"<ahem end>. Once these third parties have it, what's to stop THEM from passing it on to THEIR "selected third parties", and so on - exponential growth in the number of marketing lists your address ends up on.
Spammers try to use email addresses from such lists, but also generate bulk sends to random addresses.
Malware on computers can target your address book & harvest all your contacts, as well as your own email address. Best value is then achieved (for the spammers) by sending their spam to all your contacts, and if possible, from your PC. They may also send a list of these contacts "back home", where the spammer can add them to their databases.
PS - I have NEVER bought Viagra from myself. I would only buy products that I knew I had in stock, and could deliver in under 2 working minutes
