OddThinking

Something really scary happened to me just now. I am trying to remain “alert but not alarmed”.

I got a couple of bounce messages.

Please remain calm. I am certainly trying to.

WordPress sends me an email when a comment is posted, reassuring my neurotic soul that someone, somewhere out there cares enough to validate my existence, and offering me the chance to mark it as spam.

Today, it sent me several such emails and a couple of bounce messages.

The bounce messages are from my ISP’s mail server saying that it failed deliver copies of the automated message to four yahoo.com.tw accounts – those accounts had been disabled or didn’t exist.

Weird. I don’t have any Taiwanese Yahoo accounts. I only know one person with a Taiwanese Yahoo account, and they ain’t his. I don’t have any rules on my email host or in my email client to redirect that email anywhere but my main POP account for collection.

I don’t want to jump to conclusions here – I don’t have enough reliable information, and there could always be a simpler explanation – but the only possible conclusion I can think of is that my emails are being cc’ed to bad guys in Taiwan at the ISP level.

I have raised a support request for my (US-based) ISP. In the meantime, I am wondering in horror if this could be true and how long ago the cyberterrorists won.