not since I started
blocking most of Russia, Turkistan, etc.
The advice below is true, and Good advice .... My problem with the blocking
is that I am now corresponding with people in Russia and the Ukraine, so I
cannot conveniently block those addresses ... The harder part is
leaning the russian language and keyboard ... anyone here want to help me with
learning russian?????
oh well :>((( ... I just dont open attachments unless there is a note
along with them from the sender, and it makes some sense to me. I have also
written back and asked if something was sent by the person I know... usually
it is (always in my case), but it never hurts to check.
Tom
http://www.fot-racing.com/spit/caption/tom_strange.htm
#4 white spitfire
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com> wrote:
From: Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Weird spam messages?
To: FOT@autox.team.net
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 3:59 PM
> Anybody know what it is?
Just to echo what others have said; it's most likely some other machine
sending spam with your return address. There is effective nothing in the
email system that ensures that the "return" address means anything at all
once the message has left the first mail server; and many mail servers do
not check either.
That other machine may or may not be infected with a virus, but there is
little you can do about it sending the spam. There are ways to block
receiving it; but the only consistently effective method I have found is to
determine what range of IP addresses the spammer is using, and block all
traffic from that range of IP addresses.
I used to see messages with my return address; but not since I started
blocking most of Russia, Turkistan, etc. What I do still see occasionally
is 'bounce' messages, meaning that the receiving address does not exist and
a message was sent to it with my return address.
Randall
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