Spam using my name in the sender address

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Sallie

Hello,

I am using Outlook 2007, I am receiving email in which the sender address
contains my name, so if I mark the email as an unwanted email, all of the
email will end in the "Spam" folder. Is their a way to get to the real
address of the sender?

Thanks in adavance form your help.
 
do you send yourself email? if not, add your address to the blocked list. If
you do, you'll need to find a different way to block it - or use the junk
filtering set on high.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I am using Outlook 2007, I am receiving email in which the sender address
contains my name, so if I mark the email as an unwanted email, all of the
email will end in the "Spam" folder. Is their a way to get to the real
address of the sender?
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There's no way to find out the real sender's address. If there were, most
spammers would have been killed by DOS attacks long ago. It's possible,
though, that the message headers contain enough unique data that you can
construct a rule that will be able to tilter out the messages. A
third-party antispam tool may help as well.
 
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