spam in a bling copy

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I do consultancy for a company which set up a company email address for me
like (e-mail address removed) on their server. As I work from home and
connecting to the Company's network is not easy, that address was set up to
divert all the incoming messages to my private address. I have never used
this address for outgoing messages.

Recently I've got the following message from a Company's employee:
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Some weeks ago, I started to receive e-mails which were addressed to you and
for which I was a blind copy. The emails had, embedded in them, particularly
disgusting content which was pornographic and purportedly mostly involved
teenage girls. The frequency of the e-mails increased to such an extent
that I was receiving them every 10 minutes. The e-mails were only ever
addressed to you and ceased almost immediately when your company address
was suspended.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Questions:
1. Althought, as I said, I do not use (e-mail address removed) anywhere in my
computer, I understand that a spammer could get it by chanse or by
generating.
Likewise a spammer could get my colleague's address.
What I cannot understand is how the spammer managed to get both? The first
letters in mine and in my colleague's address are far apart in the alphabet,
so it seems extremely unlikely that an address generating programme would
put them together into one e-mail.
The only explanation which comes to my mind is that the spammer is somehow
associated with the Comapny.
What other explanations can be offered?

2. If emails are sent out by a spammer to my address and a blind copy to
another address, is it possible that suspension of my address can stop the
blind copy to arrive to the other address?
 
Once someone has your address they have it! Some viruses can read address
books so it might have been accessed that way.
If you suspend the account and use a different email address then the bounce
of messages BCCed to you *might* help.
 
Thanks.
I mean if the message is BCCed to an address of my colleague, will
suspending my address stop my collegue to receive his BCCed copy?

I thought that if an e-mail is sent two two different addresses, no matter
whether one was sent as BCC, they will travel absolutely independently of
each other, and if one address was suspended (or even never existed) then
the massage will reach the other BCCed address anyway. Am I wrong?
 
I just did a test on this and a false address in either the BCC or To field
still allowed the message to get to the other address.
 
I did same test with same result.
But I wonder perhaps some rules are possible on an e-mail server which
prohibit BCC if the TO address does not exist
However there is not way to know if an address exist
 
aa said:
Questions:
1. Althought, as I said, I do not use (e-mail address removed) anywhere
in my computer, I understand that a spammer could get it by chanse or
by generating.
Likewise a spammer could get my colleague's address.
What I cannot understand is how the spammer managed to get both? The
first letters in mine and in my colleague's address are far apart in
the alphabet, so it seems extremely unlikely that an address
generating programme would put them together into one e-mail.
The only explanation which comes to my mind is that the spammer is
somehow associated with the Comapny.
What other explanations can be offered?
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Someone in the company may have made some money on the side selling the
company address list is another explanation. Both your address and that
other employee's were placed in a public Internet area or on a web page is
also a possibility and a address-harvesting robot found them.
2. If emails are sent out by a spammer to my address and a blind
copy to another address, is it possible that suspension of my address
can stop the blind copy to arrive to the other address?
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Yes, because if your address is terminated, the router just prior to yours
may see the reject of that address (even though the other is good) early on
in the SMTP handshake and decide to terminate the entire session. Many
routers don't handle things that way, but some do.
 
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