[Resolved] Curious about how this spam have been delivered to my address

[Javier]

(I'm a bit lost with the forum organization, so I'm not sure if this is the correct place for asking these questions. My apologies if I have done it wrong)

I'm trying to educate myself about the mechanics of the spam reporting process, and today I have been puzzled by this spam (I have changed the "Delivered-To" part, replacing my real address by "me"):

http://oi61.tinypic.com/sgtt1t.jpg

My real Spamcop address is of the type "me[at]spamcop.net" and I never use it to send email, because it only serves as recipient of addresses "me[at]mydomain.com" that are forwarded to "me[at]spamcop.net".

Looking at the spam headers, I see that it is addressed to "tangent[at]spamcop.net", and that the email system have delivered it to "spamcop-net-me[at]spamcop.net".

My question is: None of these addresses (tangent and spamcop-net-me) are mine, so, how is that the spam have end handed to "me[at]spamcop.net"?

If someone of you can enlighten me about this small "mystery" I would be grateful to him/her (and I will end the day a bit less ignorant).

This is the link to the spam tracking URL: http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5929781322zc...4b5323548818c5z

Thanks and Regards,

Javier.-

[petzl]

This is the link to the spam tracking URL: http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5929781322zc...4b5323548818c5z

Thanks and Regards,

Javier.-

Should not of reached your inbox, check your blacklist filters?

Tacking URL is enough and best SpamCop is using "abuse.net" which gives wrong (default) abuse address

You need to go to your trash folder and forward as attachment to BOTH spam[at]uce.gov and fromarin[at]athenet.net in your forwarded message in it's body put:

*************************

SpamCop TRACKING URL - it may be saved for future reference:

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5929781322zc...4b5323548818c5z

209.103.200.73 (Administrator of network where email originates)

BOTNET ATTACK HOST

http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=209.103.200.73

BLOCK OUTBOUND PORT 25,

RESERVE FOR LEGIT EMAIL SERVER

CHANGE TO SECURE PASSWORD

SCAN INFECTED COMPUTER FOR MALWARE

http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&a...=209.103.200.73

[SpamCopAdmin]

It looks like you were a BCC addressee. 11 different users have reported the spam.

- Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin -

- Service[at]Admin.SpamCop.net -

[Javier]

Hi, thank you Don and Petzl, for the explanation and the advice.

[turetzsr]

Hi, Javier,

...Thanks for that last post! <g> I shall assume from it that you are satisfied with the replies to your initial question and am therefore flagging this Topic as "Resolved." If that is incorrect, it's easy for me (or another member who has Forum Moderator powers) to reverse....