Re: Stolen email

From: Rocky (yr_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:01:45 GMT

Thanks. I currently am not running a spam filtering program such as
Mailwasher. So did the person steal my address, or is it an automated
process such as a script that harvests your address from newsgroups, etc? I
have a few programs set up that alert me if email is silently sent, so I
don't think I'm sending them out, it's just a little unnerving to see spam
come in pretending to be from you.

"Jay Calvert" <jcalvert@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:g0Sfd.20522$9b.13314@edtnps84...
> Actually using your email address as the sender is one of the ways that
> spammers try to get through spam filters into your inbox. It is believed
> that you might have allowed email from yourself to be whitelisted.
>
> --
> Jay Calvert
> http://habaneronetworks.com
>
>
>
> "Rocky" <yr@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:mhRfd.16335$Mc.15853@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>> Hi. I occasionally get emails with my email address as the sender. These
>> are spam, and I realize they're spoofing my email, is this just because
>> someone gathered my email somewhere and using it to send spam, or is
>> there
> a
>> security hole in my system somewhere? I am fully updated and run a
> updated
>> firewall and virus program. I'm very security conscious about opening
> email
>> attachments running unknown programs.
>> Thanks, any info would be appreciated
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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