Receiving Spam From Myself

[Guest]

Several years ago I began receiving spam from a spammer who was able to mask
his true e-mail address. Not only did he hide HIS email address, he USED
MINE! I was receiving spam from myself (it seemed).

I kept every one of these emails with the intent to forward them to law
enforcement but then, inexplicably, they stopped. And after about 2 years of
not having received another one, I deleted all of them.

Just a few weeks ago, this spammer re-surfaced and I have now received two
e-mails from him and he's using MY email address.

Several questions:
1) is there some way I can filter these emails?
2) where can I find which law enforcement authority will take on this
situation? and
3) is there a web site that you can tell me about that would have more
information on any additional steps I can take?

Thanks in advance,
DannyBoy

 

[John Blessing]

There is nothing you can do except use a spam filter.

As before, the spammers will move onto someone else eventually.

2) where can I find which law enforcement authority will take on this
situation? and

If you send me $100, I have a cousin in who is the NIGERIAN COMMISSIONER OF
POLICE and he will be MOST HONORRED to invectigate your complante

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Billions of spam messages are sent annually. Do you really think the police
will be interested?

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[VanguardLH]

in message

Several years ago I began receiving spam from a spammer who was able
to mask
his true e-mail address. Not only did he hide HIS email address, he
USED
MINE! I was receiving spam from myself (it seemed).

I kept every one of these emails with the intent to forward them to
law
enforcement but then, inexplicably, they stopped. And after about 2
years of
not having received another one, I deleted all of them.

Just a few weeks ago, this spammer re-surfaced and I have now
received two
e-mails from him and he's using MY email address.

Several questions:
1) is there some way I can filter these emails?
2) where can I find which law enforcement authority will take on
this
situation? and
3) is there a web site that you can tell me about that would have
more
information on any additional steps I can take?

Thanks in advance,
DannyBoy

Anyone can claim any e-mail address as their own. Even you can. Try
it. Go into your e-mail accounts defined in Outlook and put whatever
you want in the E-mail field. Voila, now you are claiming to send
from that e-mail address. The From, To, Cc, and Subject "fields"
shown in your e-mail client are just *data* that gets put into the
body of your e-mail message (i.e., they get sent via the DATA
command). The RCPT-TO commands sent by your e-mail client specify who
is the recipient (which can be different than what is listed in the
*data* To and Cc fields).

Define a rule that triggers on e-mails you receive that say they were
sent from you. Do you often send yourself e-mails?

Register at SpamCop if you want to report the spams to the source.
Besides sending abuse reports to the sender's e-mail service, it also
scans the body looking for URLs for the spammed site and reports the
site, too. You can customize your SpamCop account to include other
places to report the spam, like to the FTC at (e-mail address removed). Don't
expect anything but miniscule results from sending spam abuse reports.
The primary function is to report the spam source so SpamCop gets
their blacklist updated. Of course, it helps if you use an anti-spam
program that uses the blacklists, like SpamPal. SpamPal and SpamCop
are free.

www.spampal.org
www.spamcop.net

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Billions of spam messages are sent annually. Do you really think the
police will be interested?

General police down the block? No. But there are agencies dealing with
spam, depending upon the jurisdiction. Washington State has some rather
good spam laws, and I'm sure a few other states do as well. I doubt they'd
be all that interested on just a small handful of spam, but there's probably
a tipping point.