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On 09/09/2011, at 9:55 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Matt, > It's called "spoofing". > Spoofing is the "forgery" of an address, to hide the identity of the sender, > and is usually done by an Automatic Spamming system, that blindly and > randomly, runs through addresses in sequence. > It's not actually coming from or thru your account. (see in your sent folder) > One type that's called "Self Spamming"--(go figure)--appears to be coming > "from" and going "to" the same address. > > Anti-spam experts say----There's nothing you can do, except delete them > (unopened of course). They are a nuisance, but harmless and don't last long. > Don't spam them--you'd only be spamming your own address. > > The Return Path in your Spam email is a common one: > Return-Path: <0-2545082-627-833-cf2b2...@australia.care2.com> > <http://antispam.andreotti.nl/showfakesenders.as?sort=2&sort2=2&domain=australia.care2.com> > > Spoofing is explained here: > E-mail spoofing > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing> > > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 09/09/2011, at 5:31 PM, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > >> Hi I just received a new type of junk mail, that passed straight through the >> mail filters. When I checked to see why, I saw that it was sent from me to >> me! >> >> So who ever sent it, it was entitled, "Part-Time Work", had managed to use >> my own email address to somehow send it to me, when I opened it, it even had >> my own photo attached to the message. >> >> I opened the Message>Long Headers and there was >> >> Return-Path: <0-2545082-627-833-cf2b2...@australia.care2.com> >> >> Received: from nskntingx07p.mx.bigpond.com ([95.76.213.197]) by >> nskntmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id >> <20110908130143.jihk2063.nskntmtas03p.mx.bigpond....@nskntingx07p.mx.bigpond.com> >> for <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:01:43 +0000 >> Received: from [95.76.213.197] by nskntingx07p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP >> id <20110908130143.PRJN12280.nskntingx07p.mx.bigpond.com@[95.76.213.197]> >> for <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:01:43 +0000 >> Received: from 95.76.213.197 (account <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> HELO >> bigpond.net.au) by bigpond.net.au (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.3) with ESMTPA >> id 055985465 for <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:01:42 +0200 >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> X-Mailer: qgnzqgqw_07 >> Message-Id: <9371135115.yo0v4dfe155...@drxjq.ipipqbficqjm.tv> >> >> None of which I understand. >> >> But how can the Spammer make it seem to originate from me? And how do I go >> about blocking it without blocking me? >> >> Thanks >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
