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That is how they do it - they "spoof" and email address, make it look like the owner of a particular email address has in fact sent the email address. Far easier and far more common that "hacking into" someones email account. Getting a hold of someones or some businesses email contact list can provide many (many) valid emails to use for these nefarious purposes. I always found it a bit funny when these sorts of emails start appearing and the first thing someone suggests is that "someones email account has got hacked". Spoofing or forging email has been around a very long time, tools to detect such forged emails is getting better but there always seems to be some new wrinkle which allows them to fall through the cracks. Service providers use blacklists of servers which are known as sources for such crap, email sent from one of those servers regardless of the address is simply ignored. cheers, Graham On 3/7/2017, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolin...@blackcatsystems.com> wrote: >Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this >list > >Looks like spam that forged my email address. I donât think they got into >anyoneâs email account, but I wonder if they got a list of group owner email >addresses from a break-in at qsl.net? > >> On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz.z...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from >> this list >> >> How are they doing this? This was made to look like it came from Chris's >> e-mail address. Did it actually originate there, or did they send it from >> some other account using Chris's e-mail address as the address in the >> e-mail? >> >> Someone just sent one of these to another group using MY e-mail address. >> I'm the owner of that particular group. So I'm concerned about how they're >> doing this. I did change my personal e-mail account password. >> >> 73, Zack >> > ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
