[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
http://www.equitasit.co.uk
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