Sending Spam To Myself?

[popshirt]

There may be a simple answer for this but I received an email yesterday that went automatically into my spam folder (Yahoo mail) and I noticed that the sender was my own email address.

How can that be? It was one of those viagara ads.

I immediately changed my password, but am curious as to how this could happen. I have given my password to nobody.

[issanpaul]

There may be a simple answer for this but I received an email yesterday that went automatically into my spam folder (Yahoo mail) and I noticed that the sender was my own email address.

How can that be? It was one of those viagara ads.

I immediately changed my password, but am curious as to how this could happen. I have given my password to nobody.

Odley enough this has happened to me also last week

[britmaveric]

Mail spoofing - just looks like you are sending it. No worries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing

[Dustoff]

There may be a simple answer for this but I received an email yesterday that went automatically into my spam folder (Yahoo mail) and I noticed that the sender was my own email address.

How can that be? It was one of those viagara ads.

I immediately changed my password, but am curious as to how this could happen. I have given my password to nobody.

There are many simple answers but the complexity involves just how many simple answers there are.

I have been getting loads of these for months, since I set up a website with my email address as webmaster, even though it was encrypted. All Viagra msgs.

Another problem are so-called "free" services that abound. Someone sets up an online email address book thru some service, the service contacts you to update your information (which I never do) and it all sounds up and up but the service may only protect the member's information, not your's. Spammers pay fortunes for working email addresses and, in spite of the promises of these 'free services', they can be very unscrupulous indeed.

I use a paid email service/provider and use an email client (Pegasus Mail) that has in excellent spam filter built in but spammers, especially the Viagra ones, seem to be very high tech in getting around them.

Learning to set up spam filters is an ongoing learning process...

[phaethon]

Mail spoofing - just looks like you are sending it. No worries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing

It can be a pain though if ISPs start labelling your personal domain as a spam domain and reject your legitimate email.

K.

[CosmicSurfer]

There may be a simple answer for this but I received an email yesterday that went automatically into my spam folder (Yahoo mail) and I noticed that the sender was my own email address.

How can that be? It was one of those viagara ads.

I immediately changed my password, but am curious as to how this could happen. I have given my password to nobody.

There are many simple answers but the complexity involves just how many simple answers there are.

I have been getting loads of these for months, since I set up a website with my email address as webmaster, even though it was encrypted. All Viagra msgs.

Another problem are so-called "free" services that abound. Someone sets up an online email address book thru some service, the service contacts you to update your information (which I never do) and it all sounds up and up but the service may only protect the member's information, not your's. Spammers pay fortunes for working email addresses and, in spite of the promises of these 'free services', they can be very unscrupulous indeed.

I use a paid email service/provider and use an email client (Pegasus Mail) that has in excellent spam filter built in but spammers, especially the Viagra ones, seem to be very high tech in getting around them.

Learning to set up spam filters is an ongoing learning process...

Webmaster@.... is a favorite address used by spoofers as almost all domain have an legitimate address like this....

Second more people are more likely to open a spoofed Email from "Webmaster" as they may think it is something important, another reason it is favoured by spoofers and spammers....

Also, many emails you receive may not have been directly sent to you.. They may in fact be "Bounce-backs" or "Refused mail", that was sent to you as you were listed as the "Sender"... Check the headers and subject to see if this is happenning.

I'm a spoofing expert.... My domain receives about 6-10,000 Bouncebacks... EVERY DAY.... for my spoofed domain.

I've finally got it under control.. but it is a real pain, and there is NO real defense, short of changing your Email address or dumping a domain that you own.

Chok Dee

CS