Spammer Used My Email Address
Yesterday, I received an email coming from my email address. Yes! I didn’t send email to my own but I received an email coming from me. Here’s the content of this email:
Best Way To Shop Online (note: these keywords is linked to an online store)
These are our lowest prices of the year — but they won’t last long. So take advantage of these incredible savings now and stock up on all your favorite products.
SAVE BIG on holiday gifts too with gift subscriptions for everyone on your list — family, friends and co-workers.
At just $5 these are terrific as main gifts or stocking stuffers. Click here to start shopping now and don’t forget to pass this offer along and let everyone know what a great deal you’ve found. Happy saving!
Limited-time offer…Act now!
Well, it’s a spam-email. Spammers use my email address as the sender of this spam-email. But why? Am I really popular for them to use my email to fool the people that I am endorsing their poor company?
If you received similar email using my email address, FYI, I am not the real sender of it. I’m sorry but spammers love my email address.
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Hi sel,
I don’t think it’s because of your popularity. Spammers nowadays use your own e-mail address to spam you since there’s a great probability your mail client’s spam filter won’t tag it as spam because it sees your own e-mail address as the sender.
Hi,
Actually your almost right but this technique is actually called email spoofing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing) which is used by spammers and phishing sites to hide the origin of an email address and replaced with it with something like yours…
ciao.
more power.
Hi there! This is my post here but not my first visit. I have also received a couple of emails showing the source/sender’s email address same with mine.
I agree with Oliver that this is a common technique that spammers use to spoof the originating email address. But I guess you can see the real or specific details regarding the email if you can see the message headers or details (depending on how you access your emails – thru an email client or thru webmail).
Cheers!