bitti2 Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 My office received an e-mail, supposedly from my spamcop address, that was sent before I even woke up or logged in this morning. The e-mail was in Italian. Now, I didn't send this, and I'm wondering how it was sent and how they knew to use my address to do it. Has Spamcop allowed someone to hijack my address? Who can I consult for this? Please reply in plain english--I only use spamcop to forward and filter my mail. I rarely enter the forums or do anything else with it. Am I going to start getting reported by others as a spammer? BTW, here is the text of the message that was sent using my account (it had my info in the From: box, then: Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:17 AM To: Janice Kawaminami Subject: massas! acrdito que em voce!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 I'm a bit confused. If you are actually a SpamCop user, then one would think you'd know that it's the header data that would need to be seen for anyone to talk about your issue. The forging of e-mail addresses has been going on for years now, but the coincidence of your address being used in an e-mail to your office does suggest the possibilty of viral/trojan activity ... but without headers to see where/how the e-mail was originated and sourced ...?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilgaz Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 One of your contacts or YOU got infected by a virus/worm which is professionally coded to send spam. As messing with "admin" is not a good idea, I have to say we advertise spamcop to many newbies wanting to buy Yahoo, Hotmail plus etc. So, prepare for lots not knowing what on earth "header" is *g* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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