Now, as to why the ”, where the two email addresses don’t match, or the more common “Name ”, where the name is obviously unrelated to the email address, I can only speculate. Since the email looks like it came from you, even though you didn’t really send it, you get the bounce message. They’re trying to spam someone else, and what you’re seeing is a bounce message showing that the original spam was rejected by its intended recipient.It’s a bad idea even if you could it could prevent legitimate email from reaching you. In fact, as you’ve seen, it’s not even always possible. They’re trying to spam you, and know it’s unlikely you’ll block email from yourself.When you see your own address spoofed in the From: field of spam, it’s usually happening for one of two reasons. You’re already on spammers’ lists to get spam, and they’re using that same list, or variations of it, to select which addresses to use when spoofing.Ĭurrently, there is no effective way to stop them. It might be annoying, but there’s no need to worry about it. They do not need access to your account to send spam that looks like it came from you.ĭon’t be alarmed. Many worry that because the email looks like it came from you means the spammer has access to your email account. To discover the true origin requires a more detailed analysis of email headers (which you normally don’t see), and even then, at best, you might get the IP address of the computer sending the email. And as I’ve discussed ad nauseam, the IP address is pretty much useless to you and me. There’s nothing in the email protocol requiring the From: line of a message to have anything to do with the message’s true origin. So easy, in fact, that the From: address in spam tells you absolutely nothing. They use spoofing in almost all spam you see. Spammers hide the origin of their emails effectively. What you’re seeing is called “spoofing”, or more correctly, From: spoofing: sending email that appears as if it’s coming from someone it isn’t. All you can do is keep marking spam as spam. The email protocols make the “From:” line pretty meaningless because it is so easy for spammers to send email that looks like it came from you.
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