Weird email redirecting in Gmail

[Pastore]

I keep getting these stupid Undeliverable emails saying I tried emailing random people but never have I ever. Somehow I think my gmail address got posted somewhere that a crawler grabbed it because I've started getting a huge influx of spam seemingly instantly about a week ago. I get these Undeliverable messages at least twice a day, here is a copy of one:

Your message

To: ******@3mawcpen.usmc.mil
Subject: Re: Bad Request
Sent: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:25:24 -0800

did not reach the following recipient(s):

******@3mawcpen.usmc.mil on Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:09:51 -0800
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is:
c=us;a=mail;p=organization;l=3MAWCPEN28E0503211309HF1RM1FJ
MSEXCH:IMSRGANIZATION:3MAWCPEN:3MAWCPEN28E 0 (000C05A6) Unknown
Recipient



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ******@gmail.com
To: ******@3mawcpen.usmc.mil
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:25:24 -0800
Subject: Re: Bad Request
WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by NMCI Policy. Following this
paragraph are indications of the actual changes made.

An attachment of type application/octet-stream, named message.txt.exe was
removed from this document as it
constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, please contact
the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
To:
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:09:59 -0800
Subject:

it also has a txt attachment named ATT42556.txt and has the text:

First part of the secure mail is available.

+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Kaspersky AntiVirus - www.kaspersky.com

What the heck is this crap and why am I getting it, or better yet what is sending emails from my account, or is this some other garbage?

 

[kranky]

Someone else is sending the emails, but using your address as the "From". Chances are it was random and has nothing to do with you.

 

[rh71]

Another possibility - do you use a 3rd party client to access your Gmail and/or send emails (like Outlook Express) ? Your PC may have a virus, using it as an SMTP outgoing mail server... thus all returned are coming back to that email. I don't think it's required that GMail itself have SMTP capability for this... as long as your email addy can be faked by the app... it'll go.