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Comment from prabhakar hamigi on 2011-11-30

2011-12-01T06:56:00Z

I went thr' the article as i am one of the victims of this.I am really worried now as to how to stop this.One thing i noticed is that it sends mail only when i log on using my home wi fi.However ( as i gather from the answers) i try changing all the details in my account.

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Comment from Carlos R Coquet on 2011-06-02

2011-06-03T03:40:44Z

While on the subject of spammers, be very wary of sites offering to eMail something to some third party. You have no idea of what they are going to do with that eMail address. Even if the site does not sell these addresses to spammers, they may save the addresses and a spammer hacking into their site may get them. Another category of possible spammer farms is that of sending greeting cards. Your are virtually giving them your address book. What will they do with it?? THINK BEFORE YOU DO IT!!!

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Comment from Mike Castro on 2011-05-03

2011-05-03T16:14:45Z

Hi Leo, what you say is dead on. I get emails to my Spamfighter box all the time which are so called "returns" to me i.e. bounce backs, however I did not send them. As an experiment I set up a "spoof" account on my Thunderbird programme. I used a legit AOL account belonging to me and used a totally false name. I then sent myself an email and sure enough, I got the false name and my AOL email account. The only problem is the ones I get on my Thunderbird programme often end up in the Spamfighter box. Does this mean that my address is being blocked by Spamfighter ?

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Comment from Giorgio on 2010-11-11

2010-11-11T16:07:14Z

In order to completely avoid spammers to send email that looks like you it requires a big improvement over the actual mail protocol.
In Italy (the land of the spoofers) they came out with a new mail protocol called certified mail you can read more about it here:

www.openpec.org/eng/index.shtml

This new protocol does not allow spoofing anymore. Unfortunately it's something that has been adopted only in Italy so far, and I wonder if anyone else in the world will ever feel the need for this. The protocol must be adopted on both sides to work.

I'm actually working for a company that sells this so called certified mail: Poste-Certificate.it - PEC aziende It's interesting, but very burocratic as everything here.

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Comment from Kathleen on 2010-09-03

2010-09-03T23:08:12Z

Thank You, Leo! Your explanation was clear.
People that are in MY address book are being sent these emails in batch mode/CC.

Question:
1. Without my password to my account, how do they get access to MY email address list? Some of these addresses are ancient, yet still good.
It is especially annoying to find that these 'addresses' and the tag I gave them are being sent to multiple people. I always use BCC to avoid 'giving out' addresses, which I consider common courtesy, and hopefully avoids the violation of identity of sorts. I feel like a leper now!
2. When can I hope for this to end? I'm deleting 70 or so notifications daily - in addition to knowing it's still happening - someone is monitoring this for me.
3. What Email software would you recommend? Or simply avoid HotMail?

Please shorten as necessary.
Thank you

1) They can't. It's more likely that your account has been hacked and they have your password. Check this article: Someone's sending email that looks like it's from me to my contacts, what can I do? (Remember that you need to change much more than your password to regain/retain control.)

2) You need to regain control of your account first. change your password and everything else.

3) Email software is different from am email service. EMail software: I like Thunderbird. As for email services I avoid free, recommend those with customer service, but if you must go free: Gmail.

04-Sep-2010

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Comment from Michiibelle on 2009-09-27

2009-09-27T23:29:21Z

OK, so I completely understand that anyone can write anything in the "from" line, what I need to know is HOW do I block them when the from is my own address that they put in, and not theirs? I send myself emails all the time so I can print on another level of my home (to another imac) so I don't want to block myself, What I'd like to know is HOW do I find their email? who it REALLY came from and block them and or track them down? I sooo wish I had a program to automatically extract the person's address and spam them 1000 times over. Anyone write this yet?

You can't. That's the whole point.

28-Sep-2009

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Comment from JaneRadriges on 2009-06-13

2009-06-14T01:07:12Z

The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you

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Comment from Kelly Brown on 2009-06-12

2009-06-13T00:49:54Z

The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you

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Comment from Alma van der Poel on 2008-12-14

2008-12-14T21:40:21Z

I get high importance mail from my self, stating "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" the picture then advertise medicene and link takes me to Canadian Pharmacy. How do I prevent the spamers from doing it to me and how do I stop it?

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Comment from John Sinclair on 2008-11-10

2008-11-11T01:35:42Z

Presumably this means I should be careful about adding such spam emails to my spam filter's list of spam addresses. I do occasionally send emails to myself, and I don't want to block these.

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Comment from Alex on 2008-08-16

2008-08-16T10:25:41Z

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

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Comment from Ken B on 2008-05-05

2008-05-05T15:46:47Z

Think of the "from" line of an e-mail as nothing more than the return address on a snail-mail envelope. Nothing stops me from writing someone else's name and address, and the mail will still go through.

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