My email adds has been spoofed so that I am getting lots of rejected mail from people I have never heard of, and certainly never emailed. It is a pain and I just hope it dies out in the end as I block the senders - and the webmasters who bounce them back to me. So yes, your email adds can be manufactured to fool the recipient into opening it.
Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: Malcolm Nixon To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Xmas card On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:22:00 +0000 (GMT), BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >But how could a "prankster" send anything with my e-mail address??????? :-((((( very very easily - it's done all the time. "E-mail sent from someone pretending to be someone else is known as spoofing. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_fraud It is wise not to execute any program sent in email's unless you are absolutely sure you know it was being sent by someone you trusted. Even if someone I knew having met them in the flesh - and trusted - I would scan such files with Internet security software first. Malcolm nb vigilant -- Malcolm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
