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Spam mail sent to me from my email?
Name: alma27 Date: April 19, 2006 at 12:30:49 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: pentium 4 2.4 ghz 512 Product: Intel
Comment:
I ran into something starnge lately several times. I get spam mail whose sender has a name let's say Tom. and this "Tom" 's address is my email... So if I send it to my Blocked List (Norton Antispam) I'm sending my own address which isn't exactly something I would like to do. Is there a way around this to avoid the phenomena? How does it happen? It wasn't really sent from my computer? I'd like to know if someone came across this? And if there is any solution?
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: April 19, 2006 at 14:50:04 Pacific
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To put it more simply, it would be no different than someone addressing a letter to you and putting your address as the addressee AND using your address as the return address - then simply dropping that letter in the mailbox.
You will then get a letter to you which also appears to be from you! !?
Michael J
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Date: April 19, 2006 at 17:53:55 Pacific
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Your email address could have been grabbed from the address book of an infected machine (just one possibility).
If you've ever left your email address in open text on the web then this could be the start of wadges of junk email. The spammers sell email address CD's to each other. Try a Google search for your email address.
DerekW
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Response Number 4
Name: Derek Date: April 19, 2006 at 18:01:17 Pacific
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... it's there, so consider changing your email address because removing the entry now will be too late. It's safe on this website because registered members have to click your name to get it.
No spammers engine does that, they just search for "at signs". If you must leave your email address in open text then disguise it somehow, such as:
Summary: C:\is dead. I need to boot from my backup drive but apparently my backup program did not copy my windows files. How do I make my backup drive bootable? ...
Summary: I have a used emachines t3100 that was sent to me from my father to give to my wifes parents . My father says he installed win xp before he shipped which I believe to be true. i got it out of the box ...
Summary: this is a copy of one of the emails sent to me Hello, My name is Rosa Still climbing the mountain of success in trading? There is something you simply have to know to make your way up easier! I kn...
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