If you're into programming, you can create an email with any return address
you want, including the recipient's. Makes it tough to block.
There are plenty of places they can "harvest" email addresses. If you have a
Web site with email links to yourself, if they hack someone's machine who
has exchanged email with you and you are in their Address file, etc.
Or sometimes, if you have a Web site, they will build a fake name, append it
to your domain name and use that. I've gotten junk mail addressed to all
kinds of names @gordon-glasgow.org.
Gordon Glasgow
-----Original Message-----
From: datsun-roadsters-bounces+gsglasgow=comcast.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces+gsglasgow=comcast.net@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Daryl Smith
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:15 PM
To: John F Sandhoff; Gary and Cindy Ault
Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] OT: Fraudster email address (was: Part request
email from the other day?)
I was rather surprised a couple of weeks ago when I got a spam email
from....myself!!
I don't know how they did it, or how I can prevent it in the future, but I
did some thorough scans, and bought
this "Alpha Shield" ( http://www.alphashield.com/ ) on sale at the local
computer shop, just for insurance....
Daryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F Sandhoff" <sandhoff@csus.edu>
To: "Gary and Cindy Ault" <aultgc@att.net>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: [Roadsters] OT: Fraudster email address (was: Part request email
from the other day?)
> Just more OT chatter to keep people aware of how fraudsters work...
>
>> The ...@siemens.com is a business E-mail -- a legitimate Siemens
>> address, unless there's a way to fake a corporate address.
>
> Faking an address - not so easy (possible, but unlikely).
> STOLEN email address - almost definitely. I bet the real
> Mr. Freundlich of Siemens had no idea that his email had been
> hijacked and was being used to give an air of authenticity to some
> scamming action. He possibly still doesn't know.
>
> Credit card numbers, SSN's, bank routing numbers, brokerage
> credentials, ebay accounts, email addresses - they're all bought and
> sold (for surprisingly little, as there's such a glut of stolen data out
> there). What possible use is there for a stolen email address? Well,
> now you know...
>
> -- John
> John F Sandhoff sandhoff@csus.edu Sacramento, CA
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