worried someone is spoofing my email addy

[gordanfreeman]

i got two of these identical emails from two different addresses in my school mailbox today (i only give this addy out to places i trust)

from:
xxxx@web.de

Subject: I've_got your EMail on my_account!

Hello,
First, Very Sorry for my bad English.

Someone is sending your private e-mails on my address.
It's probably an e-mail provider error!
At time, I've got over 10 mails on my account, but the recipient are you.

I have copied all the mail text in the windows text-editor for you & zipped
then.
Make sure, that this mails don't come in my mail-box again.

bye
_______________________

is this something i should be worried about? both sent a zipfile with my apparent emails in them but im afraid to open them in case they contain some sort of malicious file. i am in the process of scanning right now with antivir but that found nothing...

any ideas what i should do?

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Don't open them, as a matter of fact don't even look at Emails from sources you don't know.

 

[kamper]

Probably no one is spoofing your email and probably you don't have a virus. But you very well might get one if you follow those directions!

 

[timswim78]

This is almost definitely a virus, but it is probably not on your system. Some computer that has your email on its hard drive is infected with a virus and is sending viruses to look like they are coming from your address.