Spam Email Address Question

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ColTom2

Hi:

I received a spam email this week and Comcast has a procedure whereby you
can forward spam emails to them, which I did. However, when I used Outlook
Express's Blocked Sender procedures to add sender to my Blocked Sender's
List I noticed that the sender "Robby", as it appeared, was in fact my own
email address.

How can someone other than myself originate and send an email to me using
my email address? This is the first time that I have ever seen someone else
accomplish this.

Thanks
 
ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I received a spam email this week and Comcast has a procedure whereby you
can forward spam emails to them, which I did. However, when I used Outlook
Express's Blocked Sender procedures to add sender to my Blocked Sender's
List I noticed that the sender "Robby", as it appeared, was in fact my own
email address.

How can someone other than myself originate and send an email to me using
my email address? This is the first time that I have ever seen someone else
accomplish this.

Thanks
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The way many mass emailing worms work is that they send out emails
from the infected machine to every address they find in the local
address book, and randomly select one of those found addresses to place
in the "from" fields. What this means is that someone else who has your
email address in his/her contact list may be the infected party. You
might consider advising everyone with who you've recently corresponded
that they should all perform virus scans.



--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
 
You can put any name and address you want in the from field in an email,
someone apparently did that to you.

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ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I received a spam email this week and Comcast has a procedure whereby you
can forward spam emails to them, which I did. However, when I used Outlook
Express's Blocked Sender procedures to add sender to my Blocked Sender's
List I noticed that the sender "Robby", as it appeared, was in fact my own
email address.

How can someone other than myself originate and send an email to me using
my email address? This is the first time that I have ever seen someone else
accomplish this.

Thanks
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It happens all the time. I get several spam messages a week that are
supposedly From and To myself
 
When I open Outlook Express and Create Mail it does not give me the option
of entering a "From Field". So how and where can you enter a From address?


You can put any name and address you want in the from field in an email,
someone apparently did that to you.

--
 
I can't find how to enter a "From field in Outlook Express. Any suggestions?

ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I received a spam email this week and Comcast has a procedure whereby
you
can forward spam emails to them, which I did. However, when I used Outlook
Express's Blocked Sender procedures to add sender to my Blocked Sender's
List I noticed that the sender "Robby", as it appeared, was in fact my own
email address.

How can someone other than myself originate and send an email to me
using
my email address? This is the first time that I have ever seen someone
else
accomplish this.

Thanks
Click to expand...



The way many mass emailing worms work is that they send out emails
from the infected machine to every address they find in the local
address book, and randomly select one of those found addresses to place
in the "from" fields. What this means is that someone else who has your
email address in his/her contact list may be the infected party. You
might consider advising everyone with who you've recently corresponded
that they should all perform virus scans.



--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
 
ColTom2 said:
When I open Outlook Express and Create Mail it does not give me the option
of entering a "From Field". So how and where can you enter a From address?


You can put any name and address you want in the from field in an email,
someone apparently did that to you.
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Most if not all of the worms these days have their own SMTP engine. This is
the program use to send e-mails. They simply have the program pull a name
at random from the address book and put it in the From: field.

You could do it manually by going into the account setting and
changing the name on the account.

gls858
 
Hi,
There's a "From" field, but your address is already filled in, right? That
address came from OE> Tools> Accounts> Mail> [name of mail account]>
Properties> General. If you had multiple accounts, you would be able to
choose which account to send from. There would be a selection arrow on the
right end of the "From" field.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
ColTom2 said:
When I open Outlook Express and Create Mail it does not give me the option
of entering a "From Field". So how and where can you enter a From address?
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From within OE, Tools >Accounts > Properties > General > User Information.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
 
You can put anything at all in the "From" field. Spammers routinely put the
victim's address there so that bounced garbage still gets to them.

mady
 
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