Received spam - But its from my own email address !!!!!!!

[Guest]

I have received a few spam emails from Canadian Pharmacy, but what I don’t
understand is the from address is mine, e.g. the from address is the same as
the to address, if I add it to the blocked senders list it adds my own
address, also I have received undelivered email from mail demon saying mail I
sent could not be delivered - BUT I NEVER SENT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, again
its spam. I have windows vista ultimate and I thought that would make my
windows mail secure. It seems like someone is getting into my computer and
sending spam email as me, but what I don’t understand is that I have had NO
SURCURITY ALERTS. I have windows 1 care which is up to date.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The originator's displayed name and email address can easily
be forged, which is why you can't use those values to do any
spam filtering. Those values are 'cosmetic' in the sense that
they are not used in any way to deliver email. It does not mean
your computer is compromised. It's just a typical dirty trick used
by spammers.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[jmg3845]

The same thing is happening to me only I am getting spam from many other
sources. My question is how to stop this? If I right click and go to junk
mail I can either block the sender or the domain. Will that do the trick?
JG

 

[Guest]

If the spammers consistently use the same return addresses or at least
return addresses in the same domain. Many don't.

Many use the same address they are sending to as the return address,
and you don't want to block all messages with that return address
or that domain.

 

[jmg3845]

I have received a few spam emails from Canadian Pharmacy, but what I don’t
understand is the from address is mine, e.g. the from address is the same as
the to address, if I add it to the blocked senders list it adds my own
address, also I have received undelivered email from mail demon saying mail I
sent could not be delivered - BUT I NEVER SENT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, again
its spam. I have windows vista ultimate and I thought that would make my
windows mail secure. It seems like someone is getting into my computer and
sending spam email as me, but what I don’t understand is that I have had NO
SURCURITY ALERTS. I have windows 1 care which is up to date.

 

[jmg3845]

Thanks. Is there no way to stop this as I am afraid this will expand?

 

[Guest]

Spammers tend to send their spam in such a way that it has an incorrect
return address, often the same as the address they are sending to, unless
they want to use bounced mail to determine whether the address they are
sending to reaches anyone at all. Therefore, it wasn't necessarily sent
from your machine.

For such messages, you'll need to find ways to block them that don't
depend on the return address or its domain.

If they constantly mention a word that appears only in the body of
such spam, click on Tools, then Message Rules, then Mail, then New,
then the box before When the message body contains specific
words, then the box before Delete it, then the blue contains specific
words, then type the word, then Add, then OK then OK again,
then OK again. I suspect that a web site counts as one word, but
I haven't tried it.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Tools, Junk E-mail Options, select the "High" setting.
However, nothing is 100% effective.

 

[Bdecker]

I have the same problem. I can't get anything to filter out this spam. I
created a sub-folder in my inbox, and directed all email with my address with
a new mail rule into this "junk" subfolder. This way this crap does not
clutter up my inbox. Unless I really send something to myself, it is easy to
dump the contents of this subfolder. This seems to work until they find a
way to screen this stuff out.