Actually, I believe that in many cases, spammers pick a random e-mail
address and use it as the "From:" field. I have on two occasions
received 10-20 "bounces" from AOL's mail servers (undeliverable mail)
with my addy as the original "from" field.
I would **love** to be able to figure out where these originally came
from, but of course, the originating IP address is spoofed as well,
so..... 8-{
-- Bob --
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> JF> Yes, I've also been getting spam addressed from myself.
>
> Actually, I think the spam-from-yourself routine is a trick
> that is created by the sending software, so that everyone is
> getting spam from themselves -- so for those particular
> spams, others are probably not getting that. Spammers do it
> basically because most people don't block out their own
> email addresses, so it is one more possible way of getting
> through.
>
> JF> if others are getting spam with my
> JF> address, can I get on a blacklist?
>
> Not unless the spammer also forges headers to make the email
> look like it's coming from the IP that corresponds with the
> email address. RBL blacklisting is done based on the IP info in
> the headers, not on domain names in the email.
>
> -Abigail
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