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09-11-2012, 12:21 AM
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spam "from" gmail contacts
Lately I've been getting spam that, I'm assuming, spoofs the sender as being one of my gmail contacts. I've received spam from my SIL, nephew, and a past-president of the SOA.
Should I be afraid? very afraid? or nonchalant? Maybe I've got it all wrong & these people's email accounts are really being used as spam-bots, but I rather doubt it. Do you have any insight? How would it be able to "read" one of my gmail-contacts? I'm going to do a virus etc. scan on my desktop where this email gets downloaded into thunderbird. (I also have a laptop where I only access gmail online.) Maybe something fishy is going on there. Otherwise, I have no idea.
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09-11-2012, 05:11 AM
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well, you can click on the little triangle to the upper right (next to the reply button) and select "show original" which will give you the full headers, MIME, etc. on a separate page
Thing is, I don't know what you should be looking for there for spoofed emails. But it should be in the header somewhere. I went looking in my spam folder, and couldn't find any obviously spoofed email addresses that weren't fake from the outset.
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09-11-2012, 06:58 AM
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You should look for emails that come from a route of IP addresses than the one ones your friends normally use.
But if you are getting a lot of email "from" people you know, the odds are that someone in your circle of friends has a virus sending out spam to that person's contacts. It might be using that person's address, or it might be picking a random address from that person's contacts to be "from". When I get spam "from" a friend, and a quick routing check doesn't rule them out, I write to them (NOT returning that mail, but sometimes forwarding it, sans the attachment or link) and tell them I got what looks like spam, and they might have a virus. The last half dozen times this has happened, the person DID have a virus, and thanked me for letting them know. I've never heard of a virus that can read the addresses of the people receiving the email. I seriously doubt that is what is happening.
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09-11-2012, 12:56 PM
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m/s
it had to said
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09-17-2012, 10:53 PM
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So, I got another one tonight...
The name in the "from" was my brother, 2125814, but the email (& reply to) address was "akshay_blore19@yahoo.com" (not my brother's). The subject & body of the email, had my wife's first name, 494. The subject was "for 494" & the body of the email was "hey, 494 [link] [date] [time]"
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09-18-2012, 07:17 AM
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I've been getting several of these as well. Most go right to spam folder, but one or two have gotten through to my inbox.
Do you have Facebook? I think it's Facebook related, because one of the names on an email belonged to someone I have never emailed, but I'm friends with on Facebook.
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09-18-2012, 09:38 AM
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[BUT] I received one spammy email from a nephew w/o a FB acct & one from the aforementioned former president of the SOA who I'm only linked to via linkedin & I emailed him once, too. So far, no common denominator has held throughout all the spam...except that I've sent/received a previous email from all of them. They do all end up in the spam folder...so there's that.
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09-18-2012, 11:16 AM
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