BOUNCED SPAM I HAVEN'T SENT?

I subscribe to .mac mail, to which all email sent to my domain name is forwarded.
For the past week or so I keep on getting emails from such entities as MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM, or MAILER-DAEMON, or BARRACUDA SPAM FIREWALL, etc, all notifying me of a "Delivery failure notification"; I opened a few of these emails and they all appear to be "bounced" messages that I presumably sent.
But I didn't!
I cannot change my email address since, as I mentioned, this consists of my domain name ([email protected]); I notice that the "bounced" emails use my domain name but with a different prefix ([email protected]).
I had this happen a few times in the past, but the present situation involves SEVERAL HUNDREDS SUCH 'BOUNCED' MESSAGES AN HOUR!
Many of these (but not all) go straight to my Junk folder.
What can I do?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello Joel.
A spammer is using your your domain name with a phony email address (prefix) to appear as the sending email address for a bulk spam mailing and there isn't much if anything you can do about it.
It has happened to me with one of my valid email addresses and to many others but it shouldn't happen for long since spammers are constantly changing the phony email address that appears as the sending email address for their garbage.
I'm for life in prison doing hard labor for these low life individuals.

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