I didn't send this (spam)...

I get a lot of spam every day, right? Nothing unusual about that; I've been using Hotmail for years. So when I saw a message from the mailer daemon at yahoo.com, I thought, "oh, great, someone sent me another spam."

Uh-uh...

It's kind of unusual to get a message from a mailer daemon, so instead of dumping it like I usually do, I kept it and opened it. Sure enough, it was spam...

with my e-mail address listed as the sender.

The daemon bounced it against several e-mail addresses in the yahoo domain that are invalid. What I shudder to think of is how many e-mails actually did get through that were valid.

I don't know who did this. I'm keeping the message for now, hoping someone at Yahoo!, EarthLink, or Hotmail can do something about this. I'm posting this here in case the turkey sent that spam to you guys.

Any advice on what I can do about this?


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I'll spare you the rest.

Hi Alex:
Would it help if I told you I got the exact same spam, except my email address was used as the return address? lol It looks like the spammer selected a whole bunch of emails to insert in the From Field. Where he got the list we'll never know, but this should tell you he's not targetting you in particular.

I'm pretty sure they are inserting the same address for the recipient and the sender. You can do that yourself with most POP3 clients and a SMPT server that doesn't check the sender.

just thought this may help..
they route your ip address then the sorta trick itself so that they can put it as if it came from yyou but you can see it has a different remote x and the different hostnames..

:D

Strange that. I never got any of that stuff... maybe it was coincidence.

I went through the same horror Alex, but eventually realised the game.

When will someone come up with a more secure means of addressing?

I remember once I got spammed by some guy, he wasn't very good and I got my cousin to find his Ip coz he is a net security it guy for a big Sydney company. So he ended up getting me his email.

Well the rest sought of goes something like sending back what I got from him 50 fold with accompanying messages stating that the address was invalid...:)