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I can't believe my spam-attack today
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[quote mstudio][quote ADent]That is not a mail attack on you - that is a mail attack using your email as a return address.

Yeah, actually, I know that. I'm trying to stop the flow if possible. Are they linking my address to theirs somehow? Otherwise, what's the purpose?
Your address was either crawled and sucked from a webpage or via a worm from someone's outlook express address book.

There's no point, other than to get their spam in people's inboxes.
There's also some sort of logic the spammers use to try to get spam to appear to come from people you know so you'll be more likely to open it. So the original recipient of the spam message with your return address may have been farmed from the same source. This sort of explains why they use real addresses, or at least try to, to send these things.
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I can't believe my spam-attack today - by mstudio - 05-12-2008, 01:47 AM
Re: I can't believe my spam-attack today - by Black Landlord - 05-12-2008, 02:17 AM
"I get no spam!" - by RAMd®d - 05-12-2008, 03:15 PM

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