The new face of spam?

LoLth

hmmmm, I just got an email offering me a 75% discount on my dream vacation! ooooooh.

It has all the signatures of a standard spam that is such a frequent visitor to hotmail accounts, including the "if you do not wish to receive more offers---click here" yeah, and verify that I do in fact read my email. ok.

What made this one different is that, seemingly, I SENT IT TO MYSELF!!!

How? Any way I can find who did actually send this?

MiCr0

lolth check u're ireland.com mail

LoLth

Wah! Stoooooop!!!!

I'm getting paranoid. OK. that's five so far. How many more times am I going to mail myself?

PS. Micro, thanks, but Draco already beat you to it. Karl, thanks, I've got London peeps wondering how I'm using an email account from your company Knowing my luck I'll get picked up by the SEC for suspected insider trading or some official secrets crap

[This message has been edited by LoLth (edited 27-07-2000).]

SantaHoe

Hobbes

My current ISP put in a thing called Spaminator which automatically picks it up.

Btw, here is a trick you can try.

user@domain.com

if this is your normal email address. Lets say your ordering from amazon.com but you don't trust them to not sell your details.

Change your address to...

user+amazon@domain.com

That will get through to your email account. It won't stop the spam, but it will tell you were the spam is coming from. But at a guess I'd say the spam programs strip this?

The other method is to put the word NOSPAM into the domain name.

user+amazon@NOSPAMdomain.com

Now by removing the No spam message they agree to not send you spam.

Catch_22

ive had a cuple of these but havent bothered attempting to trace any .. the main problem being that hotmail doesnt let you view the headers ..

so im assuming its just an anonymous mailer specifying the source address as = target address.. if so the source server should be listed in the mail header .. if it is & this stuff becomes common:

root@serveritcamefrom,postmaster@...

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if everyone does this problem should be sorted out

OctaviaN

Yeah i used to have a hotmail a/c but that **** ****ed me off inc/ing porn ****e! no no pictures that was worse they could at least send a few.
So i got an a/c with www.mail.com you can choose from loads of domain names.