I Keep On Getting E-mails......

[jamesjdaly]

Hi

I hope someone out there in Cyberland can help me as I have a problem that's driving me mad.

Everyday, I get quite a lot of incoming mail in both my (Yahoo) Inbox and my Spam box. Theses are products advertising Viagra, pharmaceutical products and general nonsense! The thing is, although the sender uses his own name, he is using my own e-mail address, so blocking these people isn't an option.

1. How did this happen?

2. More importantly, how can I stop these e-mails?

Thanks

[webfact]

Here you can read some information on that subject - its quite complex Why I am getting spam from myself

Edited June 17, 2009 by webfact

[HDRIDER]

Hi

Me too, its Gmail i use, in sender it say me it comes in spam, just started a few days ago, how to stop please

[Carib]

Hi

I hope someone out there in Cyberland can help me as I have a problem that's driving me mad.

Everyday, I get quite a lot of incoming mail in both my (Yahoo) Inbox and my Spam box. Theses are products advertising Viagra, pharmaceutical products and general nonsense! The thing is, although the sender uses his own name, he is using my own e-mail address, so blocking these people isn't an option.

1. How did this happen?

2. More importantly, how can I stop these e-mails?

Thanks

Hi James, the reason they use your own adress you already mentioned, you cannot block them. It is one of the spammers tricks.

As to what to do about it, I am interested too.

[webfact]

Read what Google has to say about

Spoof A

Google user groups

Spoof B

[MJo]

All mails from my own address go to my spam folder in Gmail with the name "me" so no need to block as they go automatickly to spam. Usually if you at the address it says John Smith ([email protected]) so the actual address is not yours, just the description stating your name in attached to the sender information...

Edit: and i can block them as well as they are not coming from my address even if they have my name in sender field.

Edited June 17, 2009 by MJo

[BigSnake]

The old Spam Scam game>Can't block your on email, best bet, spend a few second on the old DELETE Key, I did this over the course of a month or so and for whatever the reason I now get little if any spam email

[RKASA]

Yes you got to mark them as spam, so they get reported and maintain a good contact list.  I don't get any spam anymore with gmail.  I always had recuring rounds of it with yahoo.  The other thing is to not sign up or reg at every place on the net that asks.  They re sell usable email addresses.  Set up a junk mail account with bogus info to use if you need to sign up to try something,  if you like it you can switch to the real thing.  I maintain 3 bogus email accounts.  Never respond to a spam it will only confirm your a good address to use.  My own name type of spam happened to me alot at yahoo for some reason and never anywhere else.

[Carib]

Webfact, thanks for the links .

[niller74]

One can only hope they all these email servers will switch to a more intelligent filter that actually scan the email instead of just looking at the sender to see if it is someone you already have established communication with. DSpam is a great tool for such scanning. It is extremely intelligent after a few hundreds mails fed into the system. On my mail server I have well above 99% accuracy and no false positives at all.