I had a ton of these in my inbox on June 11, and some on June 12...yeah, I haven't checked my email in a long time. LOL

It's like I sent a bunch of emails that were undeliverable (permanent fatal errors), but I didn't. So...if anyone got an email from me around that time, maybe saying I was trapped in London with Charlie or something, I apologize. LOL Emails were sent to some addresses/screennames I recognize from cbid, random custome service address of cigar sites, and other emails that I'm not sure who they belong to.

Odd.

it is very easy to do.

you take a legit email address and enter it in your sent from and reply to settings in your e-mail software. Send out a bunch of e-mails to a list that was either hacked, purchased, or obtained in any number of ways. On the receiving end, it looks like it comes from the legit addy and any replies go back to the legit addy. However if you open the e-mails full header you will see that the e-mail did not actually originate from the e-mail addy listed.

Its a PITA, but AFAIK, there is not much you can do to stop it.

Has happened to my e-mail a few times, although I have never had my contact list hacked/sent to, just my e-mail addy used to send junk ads to thousands of random addresses.

Save your data, wipe the disk, and reload your programs.