>Today I began getting 1000's of bounce-back emails in one of my google email accounts (victor.anderson)
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>It appears to be a 419 scam - and the bot that's doing it is using my email address for the return address. I'm not 100% sure but I think its all coming from victoranderson@gmail.com
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>Anyone have any ideas on how I can deal with this? Under normal circumstances I would just abandon the email address - but I'm looking for a job right now and used that email address so I can't really just ditch it....grrrr

Interesting - it also appears that all email sent to victoranderson@gmail.com is being forwarded to my victor.anderson@gmail.com account too!

What I just tried was going to the gmail website and created a filter that deletes all emails with 'victoraderson@gmail.com' in them - perhaps that will work..geeze!