Junk Email! Sent from myself? Outlook 2003

[mesmith1375]

Hello,

Is anyone getting any getting junk email sent to yourself from yourself? I
am getting about 5 to 10 junk emails in my junk email folder from
(e-mail address removed), however it says its from my email. Here is an example:
(e-mail address removed) [[email protected]]. I am not the only one at my
company with this problem, its pretty much widespread. Any ideas on how to
fix this?

 

[dlw]

if you go view/options it will give the internet headers and it will probably
show it is not really from you. The email address that shows up in the FROM
field is just text and spammers can set it to anything they want.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

you didn't send it - the spammers forged your from address so it would be
more likely not to be filtered. Your email admin could set up the SMTP mail
gateway (that accepts email from the internet) to refuse email from it's
domain. This works well as long as you don't use services like gmail or
other SMTP to send using your work address.

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Hello,

Is anyone getting any getting junk email sent to yourself from
yourself? I
am getting about 5 to 10 junk emails in my junk email folder from
(e-mail address removed), however it says its from my email. Here is an
example:
(e-mail address removed) [[email protected]]. I am not the only one at
my
company with this problem, its pretty much widespread. Any ideas on
how to
fix this?

Anyone can claim whatever they want in the From header as their e-mail
address. You can do it, too, just by putting whatever string you want
in the E-mail or Reply-To fields in the e-mail account you have
defined in Outlook. Mail server do not check and force that the
e-mail address that you specify must match to the e-mail address for
your e-mail account with them. In fact, the From header is part of
the *data* that the sender puts into their e-mail and not anything the
mail server adds.

If you don't send yourself test e-mails then create a rule to delete
or move e-mails that go to your e-mail account with the same e-mail
address as your e-mail account.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is anyone getting any getting junk email sent to yourself from
yourself? I am getting about 5 to 10 junk emails in my junk email
folder from (e-mail address removed), however it says its from my email. Here
is an example: (e-mail address removed) [[email protected]]. I am not
the only one at my company with this problem, its pretty much
widespread. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Even if what dlw says is false and it really shows your address as the
sender, there's really not much you can do about it. Someone hijacked your
address, perhaps because the PC of someone with your address in their
address book has been compromised or because you posted your mail address in
a public place on the Internet. You could try to filter out some of the
junk with rules or a server-based junk filter.