Re: Email identity theft?
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/05/03
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From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 10:20:06 -0500
The FROM: field is very easy to forge in email. You won't get in trouble.
There are clues in the email that can prove whether or not the email really
came from you, e.g. the email SMTP headers. More information on decoding
these is at www.samspade.org and other places, though it's usually pretty
hard to track down the real sender or get this to stop.
"lizzy0921" <lizzy0921@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:03e201c2b3ab$2aabb1f0$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
> For the second time this week I have received a "failure
> notice" saying my email couldn't be delivered. Both emails
> were about something (i.e. smoking & losing weight) and is
> most definitely something I would NOT send out. Also its
> being sent to email addresses I don't even know who they
> belong to. The "from" part of the message has my email
> address though in the header. too strange and very
> annoying. I don't want to get in trouble for something I
> haven't done. IF anyone knows how to stop this from
> happening please let me know?
>
> Liz
>
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