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Spam emails, FROM ME.... TO ME ? what? by M73A on 06-18-2009 at 01:33 PM
I don't understand, logged in to my gmail earlier today, had over 200 spam emails. (normally theres like 10 at most)
The senders address of a lot of the spam is my email, but all with different names as the name of the person.
from Corchado Claudette <****@gmail.com>
to ****@gmail.com
date Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM
subject Corporate meeting
from Lenita Ceqc <****@gmail.com>
to ****@gmail.com
date Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM
subject GM's CEO hung himself
and so on... im not to bothered, the spam filter catches them all, but how/why is it from me? 
RE: Spam emails, FROM ME.... TO ME ? what? by user35870 on 06-18-2009 at 01:50 PM
The FROM header can easily be spoofed so that it looks like its coming from you, I think the reason behind doing it is so that its harder for your spam filter to identify it as junk, because it "looks " like its coming from you.
RE: Spam emails, FROM ME.... TO ME ? what? by M73A on 06-18-2009 at 05:36 PM
oh okay. thanks. lol.
RE: Spam emails, FROM ME.... TO ME ? what? by RaceProUK on 06-23-2009 at 05:44 PM
Any decent spam filter nowadays doesn't bother with FROM and TO headers much, as they are so easy to spoof. They all tend to go on the content.
RE: Spam emails, FROM ME.... TO ME ? what? by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 02:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by RaceProUK
Any decent spam filter nowadays doesn't bother with FROM and TO headers much, as they are so easy to spoof. They all tend to go on the content.
They were all in the spam folder anyway... i just noticed them because of such a large number of spam emails that day!