[Fot] Weird spam messages?

[David W. Riddle]

No.  It is not an "internal" thing - meaning that you are sending to 
yourself.  Rather as I indicated in that email to you off-list two hours ago...

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As a Web/email host provider what we generally see this being is one 
of two probable causes.

1. Someone that you know (of who has your email address in their 
Outlook address book) is infected and the rouge piece of software is 
reading the Outlook address book to sends it's crap out. It will send 
to all the addresses that it finds and will pretend to be sending 
from those same addresses.

or

2. Someone is sending out that mail pretending to be you.

If you want forward one to me and I'll see if the message headers can 
give a clue as to which probably sources you are seeing.
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At 01:11 PM 5/30/2009, you wrote:
>So you're saying it's an internal thing?  Odd that.  Nonetheless,  I'm
>relieved to hear that.  I wouldn't want you all to think I'm 
>touting  Cealis or
>somesuch;-))
>
>
>In a message dated 5/30/2009 12:55:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>rocky at spitfire4.com writes:
>
>I've  gotten spam "from" myself!
>
>I also get them from addresses that forward  to me (such as
>pointskeeper at midiv.org) from which it is impossible for me  to send.
>
>Your address is being spoofed. This is why the old line about  "trusted
>addresses that you know" is no longer valid. As a result I never  open an
>attachment to a message that has no text. I have, on occasion,  sent a
>message back saying "did you send me an attachment? if so send it  again
>because it was deleted here" while explaining why bald attachments  are not
>good things to send. I organize my inbox by subject and can pretty  well
>tell
>from any message's subject whether it's real or spam. As I'm  scanning my
>inbox, the cursor hovers over the Delete  icon.
>
>--Rocky
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From:  <Gt6steve at aol.com>
>To: <FOT at autox.team.net>
>Sent: Saturday,  May 30, 2009 1:13 PM
>Subject: [Fot] Weird spam messages?
>
>
> >  Hey,
> > Do you guys occasionally get weird spams with my address as  the  sender?
> > I
> > get them and am fairly sure I didn't send  them.  There was  a racer in
> > NorCal a while back that would  occasionally send a weird spam.   I trust
> > he was
> >  innocent as well.
> >
> > If this is a virus it's a fairly subtle one,  not enough nuisance to go
> > after it.  Anybody know what it  is?
> >
> > Steve, who's not sending the stuff...
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