Lee, How do you digit ally sign your email? Do you scan your signature and then paste it at the end of your email messages? Or is it simply what you have at the bottom of this message? Or is it some other more techy way?
Thanks. On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Steven Brown <sbrown1...@att.net> wrote: > >> John Robinson says he received about 7 different e-mails from me this >> morning! >> >> Apparently my e-mail has been hacked. It seems like it happens about once a >> year or so. >> >> What can I do? > > There's nothing you can do about it. Nobody has to hack your account to send > an email that looks like it came from you. I can send an email that looks > like it came from Barack Obama or the Queen of England, assuming I can find > their email addresses. All you have to do is know how to set the From: header > in email, and this is not difficult at all. It's no harder than putting a > fake return address on plain old paper snail mail. > > Spammers have been doing this for years, and it does not necessarily mean > they've compromised anyone's account. > > That's why I digitally sign much of my email. That can’t be faked by any > method I know. Spammers can fake my address, but my signature shows whether > it really came from me. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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