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I just took a look at it again. It was received FROM the group I am the owner of and was then tagged by gmail as being sent by me. I do not find a record of an e-mail actually being sent from my account to that group. It originated from this site: www.cep.co.jp That's in Japan. 73, Zack On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, that's kind of what I suspected. What had me thrown off was the > message to one group that I'm am owner of got the message, supposedly sent > by me. AND it showed up in my gmail account "Sent" messages as being sent > by me. I don't know if that is because it was received from an address that > was supposedly mine, so it labeled it as "sent" by me, or what was > happening. I'm not quite sure how gmail sorts messages. > > I couldn't make much sense out of it by looking at the full header, either. > > Oh well, maybe I'll look at it again later. > > 73, Zack > > > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:27 PM, <planoph...@aei.ca> wrote: > >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from >> this list >> >> 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 don’t think they got >> into anyone’s 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 >> > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
