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Topic: Could someone explain...
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26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15625
From: *
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 20, 2009 03:20 PM
 
How I get these junk emails that dont even have the right "To:" address in them???I just checked into my old address, the one that gets bombarded with spam and I dont use anymore. I got yet another creepy email from someone I don't know (this has been going on for awhile - you don't want to read the message  ), but how is it that they arrive in my box when they are addressed to someone completely different?  Latest one for example: From: "Lidia C******" <goodmand@******.net>Add sender to Contacts
To: wai8748**@yahoo.com my addy is nowhere close to that "To" person's. What's going on? Can anyone explain? And it's very odd that this last sender's address has "goodmand" in it's addy.  IP: Logged |
VinayM19
Knowflake Posts: 131
From: Planet Earth
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted January 21, 2009 11:29 AM
@26taurus
Well there can be many reasons for this issue but you know with experience i have realized that there is always this issue of spam mails in yahoo and gmail so better use those email account of less popular but good efficient email service provider.
eg: zapakmail.com ------------------
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26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15625
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 21, 2009 12:38 PM
Thanks Vinay. I'm just curious as to how emails addressed to someone else (different each time) end up in my box.IP: Logged |
Yin
Knowflake Posts: 1600
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Registered: May 2004
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posted January 21, 2009 03:46 PM
Looks like a combination of SPAM and spoofing. Somebody or something probably got a hold of somebody's address book where your address was listed. That's how you get the SPAM. quote:
E-mail address spoofing
The sender information shown in e-mails (the "From" field) can be spoofed easily. This technique is commonly used by Spammers to hide the origin of their e-mails and leads to problems such as misdirected bounces (i.e. e-mail spam backscatter).E-mail address spoofing is done in quite the same way as a writing a forged return address using snail mail. As long as the letter fits the protocol, (ie. stamp, postal code) the SMTP protocol will send the message. It can be done using to a mail server with telnet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack IP: Logged |
26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15625
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 21, 2009 05:02 PM
Ah-ha! Thank you Yin. Sounds like that might be exactly what's been going on...Some people really need to get a life.  IP: Logged |
Yin
Knowflake Posts: 1600
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Registered: May 2004
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posted January 21, 2009 09:14 PM
26, GMAIL has really good anti-SPAM and anti-spoofing defenses in case you are looking to change your account.IP: Logged |
Geocosmic Valentine
Knowflake Posts: 1182
From: New York, NY
Registered: Sep 2007
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posted January 21, 2009 09:34 PM
They could also be using the "BCC" function which is normally used in office type situations when you don't want the original recipient to know that you sent the email to someone else.IP: Logged |
teaselbaby
Knowflake Posts: 1461
From: Northeast Ohio
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted January 23, 2009 07:53 AM
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They could also be using the "BCC" function which is normally used in office type situations when you don't want the original recipient to know that you sent the email to someone else.
This was my first thought as well. IP: Logged |
26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15625
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 23, 2009 09:36 AM
Thanks Yin. I'll look into that.  I don't use this email anymore but still check into it periodically and have wondered for awhile what was going on here. I might get a GMAIL account anyway.  Geo and Teasel, it's possible, but the messages are usually very short, perverted and seriously misspelled. It's not like a normal email message addressed to someone, written with something coherent and signed off by someone. Definately weird. It could be being BCC'ed to other people, sure.  IP: Logged |
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