Why am I getting spam from myself?

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Is there a way of blocking e-mails that contain a keyword in the body of the e-mail? e.g. Viagra. I notice that most of these spams never mention the word in the header.

That depends entirely on the services your email provider includes, and what specific email program you use.

11-Aug-2009

I think most of the problem occurs with the fact that when sending mail to ourselves the sender is labeled " me " If Gmail would allow us to change this ( and not just when sending to someone else ) then the spam wouldn't irritate us so much. If I sent a mail to myself and it said " blushin " on it, I'd know it was from me, when I recieve one that says from " me " I would block it. But Gmail makes it impossible to do this.

I get tons of spam "from" myself, thankfully my email filters it out very effectively. My question is whether or not the spammers are able to send these spoof emails to OTHERS with MY email address in the "from" field. Are they able to spam others and make it look as if the spam was sent from my address?

Yep.

06-Nov-2009

it is so frustrating to me as it has now happened twice via my hotmail address - spam being sent to me and all my adressees - some of my addressees have warned me and I have profusely apologised, but am afraid I will be blacklisted. How can I stop the spam from reaching those on my addressee list? I dont care about myself. It is just embarrassing - particularly to those I have subscribed to their newsletters....

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