[Gllug] regular spam

Ryan Cartwright r.cartwright at equitasit.co.uk
Thu Jul 2 10:39:39 UTC 2009


2009/7/2 Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk>:
> On Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 15:53:58 -0500, Lucy Peters wrote:
>
>>    I have been receiving regular spam about 8 a day under a different name
>>    using my email address sending to my email account.
>
>  Other people have answered your actual question, about unsubscribe
>  links.
>
>  But it might be interesting to mention that this is a reasonably new
>  tactic of spammers setting the from/to address to be that of their
>  victim.

new? I haven't had a great deal of spam lately* but I'm pretty sure
I've getting spam with my own address in the from/reply-to header for
some years now.

*guess I must have dropped off the bottom of a list somewhere - sure
it won't last :(

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Ryan Cartwright
Equitas IT Solutions
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