[mso] Re: My email account being cloned - ? OT
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:39:57 -0400
Hi Anne...unfortunately there's not much you can do about this. All email
accounts allow people to put anything they want in the "From" section, so
spammers are able to cloak their emails so they appear to be coming from
someone other than them. I am constantly getting emails from myself (that I
never sent) and I'm also constantly getting emails from ISPs telling me they
are blocking mail I sent becuz it contains viruses. Well, it ain't true and
ISPs SHOULD know how to check the header to see the actual sender is not me,
but they are just too lazy...and it REALLY ticks me off. I also get email
all the time from buntah@xxxxxxxx, which was an email address I used about
five years ago....that address hasn't existed in five years, but obviously
SOMEONE has it in their address book and it is still grabbed by spammers and
viruses.
This spamming technique is similar to the way virus "worms" work...they grab
random email addresses from people's address books....when you are in a lot
of address books, this happens to you more often.
Unfortunately, it's not something we can do a lot about :-( But, it is a
reason why I am VERY hesitant to report people as spammers unless I'm 100%
sure they are indeed the one who sent the email.
Linda F. Johnson
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
All outgoing mail checked by Norton AV. If you received a "bug" that looked
like it came from me, it did NOT!
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Anne Robson
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:38 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] My email account being cloned - ? OT
I've just come back from a week's long overdue holiday to find an email
purporting to be from my own work email account, sent to me
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