On Feb 17, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Kathryn Odell wrote:
I've received a few unsuccessful delivery notifications (see example below).
The weird thing is I didn't send these emails. Does anyone have any idea of
what might be going on here? I have a Pismo running OS9, using Comcast
Internet with a Netgear wireless router and a wireless card. Thanks for your
help.
Your e-mail address was in someone's address book or web cache in some Windows user's system, which is either infected with a virus, or has been taken over by spammers. <http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/10230.php>
In both cases the 'From:' header of the e-mail is forged to make it look like it's coming from you. (they can't hide the true origin of the e-mail, but that takes some deeper probing into the mail headers to retrace the path the e-mail really took.)
We get these all the time. My 'favorites' are the messages from the antivirus software scolding me for not properly protecting my PC from viruses.
We got a whole bunch of those during the MyDoom outbreak, and it was pretty clear that they had an internal infestation, but since it forges the 'From' headers they thought it was all coming from outside.
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