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MovedGoalPosts · 31-05-2005, 16:26

I see this sort of message quite a lot on our work servers.

Chances are your email addy has been stored in an outlook type address book on some numpty's PC. That numpty doesn't have adequate protection from viruses and thus that PC is sending out emails using various addys that it can find in the address book.

Equally if your email addy is listed on any websites, it can have been scanned by the spoofers.

There is no easy solution, as far as I am aware, other than the keep yourself protected, and hope that others will realise the need for protection too.

31-05-2005, 16:26	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Think someone is spoofing my email to send spam? I see this sort of message quite a lot on our work servers. Chances are your email addy has been stored in an outlook type address book on some numpty's PC. That numpty doesn't have adequate protection from viruses and thus that PC is sending out emails using various addys that it can find in the address book. Equally if your email addy is listed on any websites, it can have been scanned by the spoofers. There is no easy solution, as far as I am aware, other than the keep yourself protected, and hope that others will realise the need for protection too.