Received email from myself

[Jimmy]

Received email today which appeared to come from my own email address,
however I did not send it. Checked my sent messages and it was not there
..Question is where did it come from??

 

[Pernet-Coudrier Laurent]

HELLO

 

[Guest]

Received email today which appeared to come from my own email address,
however I did not send it. Checked my sent messages and it was not there
.Question is where did it come from??

Spammers often do this to keep you from finding their return address and
setting up a rule to delete all mail received from their address.

 

[Guest]

Hello. Do you want to be treated as shouting, for sending a message in ALL
CAPITALS?

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Received email today which appeared to come from my own email address,
however I did not send it. Checked my sent messages and it was not there
.Question is where did it come from??

It's a clever way that spammers have adopted to ensure that you get at least
on advert by e-mail.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

This is probably email address spoofing and it comes from one of two places:

1. Someone who has your email address has a malware infection that's gotten
hold of the address book and is using your name and email address (as well
as every other address in the book) to cover it's tracks.

2. Some spammer managed to get hold of your email address (maybe you posted
a message online and used your real email address) and is using it (plus
every other address he can get his hands on) to do the same thing cover his
tracks.

Sadly, there's not much you can do about it, particularly if its due to case
1. As to case 2, never use your real email address for anything you post
online (E.G. "hhh at kvoa dot com", a perfectly human readable
representation that forum scanning robot will ignore). My real address is
below and I get several THOUSAND spam emails a day because of it.

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com

 

[Jay]

"My real address is below and I get several THOUSAND spam emails a day
because of it."

Which begs the question: why don't you scramble it in some way?

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

At this stage of the game, disguising it would make no difference. We
(KVOA) use an off-site spam filtering organization called "Postini" which
traps the thousands of spam/virus emails and sends along the good stuff.

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com