I recieved this spam some time ago, bearing a spoofed source address - one
of my associates' addresses. It is not difficult (with the aid of some
easily downloaded software) to make spam 'originate' from anyone's mail box
(indeed, much of the spam originating from Hotmail is thus spoofed).
Just before I gave up on a Hotmail address I was spoofed - receiving over
2500 rejected mail responses from assorted servers around the world.
The moral:
Don't believe everything you read in the header of your incoming e-mail -
it, too, can be forged. And in bulk!
Regards,
Paul.
Paul P. Ellison
Information & Communications Technology Manager
Edgehill College
Bideford
Tel: 01237 426231 (direct)
01237 471701 (switchboard)
Fax: 01237 425981
e-Mail: <[log in to unmask]>
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> From: David Killick <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Interiors Dealers - Please Read
> Date: 18 August 2002 04:42
>
> It certainly had it's origins in one of the lists to which I subscribe,
> since my attempts to unsubscribe just generate a message that my
> personal email is not on their distribution list, so they can't
> unsubscribe me. Unless Tony also gets the ARCH-METALS, HIST-AFRICA or
> SASnet (Society for Archaeological Sciences) discussion lists (the only
> other ones to which I subscribe), then the message came through this
> list
>
> Dave Killick
>
>
> Peter Claughton wrote:
> >
> > >Did anyone else in the newsgroup get this spam?
> > >
> > >[log in to unmask]
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> > I would reassure list members that there are significant anti-spam
barriers
> > in place at jiscmail and it highly unlikely that the message received
had
> > it's origins in the mining-history list.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> >
> > Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, Rosebush, Clynderwen,
> > Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE.
> > Tel. 01437 532578; Fax. 01437 532921; Mobile 07831 427599
> >
> > University of Exeter - School of Historical, Political and Sociological
Studies
> > (Centre for South Western Historical Studies)
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> >
> > Co-owner - mining-history e-mail discussion list.
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> >
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> >
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