on 6/14/02 6:23 AM, Pam Lefkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a scary incident this morning. OK, scary to me because I don't > understand how this could happen. I received a piece of spam...from ME! I > viewed the headers and found the following:
Pam: A couple of the more shameless tactics spammers are using nowadays are: 1) Forging the "from" headers of SPAM so that it appears to come from the recipient. 2) Forging the "from" headers of SPAM so that it appears to come from someone else. In the case of #1, spammers have their mailers set up so that they simply place the same address in the "from" and "to" header -- that's what happened to you. In the case of #2, spammers just pick some address, or make one up, and stick it in the "from" header. I've now been the victim of #2 three times. The first time, last November, the SPAM was sent to hundreds of thousands of people. My ISP shut down my domain for being a "spammer" host, a bunch of ISPs would no longer accept mail from my domain, and I ended up getting about 10,000 bounced mail messages over the following couple of weeks. Be glad you were hit by #2 ;) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
