kozersky
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posted on June 5, 2006 07:12:21 PM
[ edited by kozersky on Jan 26, 2010 06:45 PM ]
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 5, 2006 09:02:17 PM
It originated from 61.102.50.117.
To decipher mail headers, start with the last Received: line and read upwards.
I just received an email from my web address to my web address, which I did not send.
Any value can be used for the From: field. For example, you don't think spammers use their real address in the From: line, do you? They don't want a response to their mail.
fLufF
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kozersky
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posted on June 5, 2006 09:48:22 PM
[ edited by kozersky on Jan 26, 2010 06:45 PM ]
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ewora
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posted on June 6, 2006 01:57:51 AM
Looks like it originated in South Korea.
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
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kaygeestudios
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posted on June 6, 2006 01:18:02 PM
I received the same email today, except 455 was in the subject line and 869 was in the body. There aren't any clickable links or attachments, so what is the purpose of such an email? This is a new one to me!
Eva
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 6, 2006 03:38:25 PM
One possible purpose is verifying a list of addresses.
When you send email to someone and it is undeliverable, it "bounces" back to you.
Spammers take their list, cross off the bounces, and what they have left is saleable to sleazeballs who want to do "email marketing".
fLufF
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irked
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posted on June 6, 2006 04:29:15 PM
Time to change your email addy...
**************
I married my wife for her looks...but not the
ones she's been giving me lately!
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LtRay
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posted on June 6, 2006 06:36:09 PM
DH received one today as well. Just curious, how many of you are vets? How many of you would have had your email addy's on file at the VA?
Could this be the first wave of the stolen VA files hitlist?
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kozersky
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posted on June 6, 2006 11:24:59 PM
[ edited by kozersky on Jan 26, 2010 06:46 PM ]
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LtRay
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posted on June 7, 2006 02:13:33 AM
My DH's email came From: his email address and sent TO: his email address.
And yes, he still clicks links that I would never consider clicking.
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kaygeestudios
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posted on June 7, 2006 06:41:53 AM
mine came from my email address to my email address. I'm running spyware scans now!
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kaygeestudios
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posted on June 7, 2006 06:44:47 AM
I'm just thinking that the body of the message I received also contained 969...could have something to do with yesterdays date of 6/6/06 or 666!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 7, 2006 10:40:11 AM
Sigh. Okay. I'm gonna try to explain this one more time.
A message can be "From:" ANYONE! I can send you an email from George W. Bush. I can send you an email from Mother Teresa. I can send you email from yourself.
Anyone can.
You know enough already to know that you should never click on a link in email, right? Well, here's something else you need to know: What it says in the From: line is quite possibly a LIE. It is often not where the email originated at all.
In other words:
If you get email purporting to be from you or from your computer, that does NOT mean that you sent it.
Now, is there anyone who still doesn't understand this? Do I see any hands up out there?
fLufF
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kiara
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posted on June 7, 2006 10:58:31 AM
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mcjane
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posted on June 7, 2006 01:05:48 PM
Got one too.
Now know I'm not sending email to myself in my sleep. 
Subj: 586876
Date: 6/6/2006 1:13:57 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: [email protected] (Mcjane)
To: [email protected] (Mcjane)
5556
----------------------- Headers --------------------------------
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (rly-yd04.mail.aol.com [172.18.141.68]) by air-yd02.mail.aol.com (v109.13) with ESMTP id MAILINYD22-21244850f097c; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:13:57 -0400
Received: from Laptop.com (triband-del-59.176.55.225.bol.net.in [59.176.55.225]) by rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (v109.13) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYD410-21244850f097c; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:13:46 -0400
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:43:40 +0530
To: "Mcjane" <[email protected]>
From: "Mcjane" <[email protected]>
Subject: 586876
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-AOL-IP: 59.176.55.225
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:5:37855407:12348031
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0
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irked
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posted on June 7, 2006 02:02:24 PM
I'm a vet, but what does it got to do with this email?? I missed something I think.
Latest on VA hardrive stolen is it covers not just Vets but active duty military too apparently. I am thinking who stole it can
not access the hardrive and may have taken it out and replaced it. I think all companies need to get that software that with illegal access the hardrive destroyes itself. They do have that available and government should really be using it....
**************
I married my wife for her looks...but not the
ones she's been giving me lately!
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on June 7, 2006 02:57:15 PM
try mailwasher, esp. mailwasher pro. you can delete the spam before it ever reaches your computer and can bounce almost all of these junker e'mails back to the sender.
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards
http://www.vintagepostcards.org
http://www.vintage-postcards.blogspot.com/
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