Re: [OT but important] Re: Claim your Free 4-In-1 Super Pen,it's beenpaid for by...

What really puzzles me about this SPAM business, is occasionally I would
get spam
that didn't have my address on it...Without my address, how did I
receive it?
Seems impossible....but there it is.

Donald Hosford

thwaak wrote:

> Glenn M Wilson wrote:
>
> > (may be forged)) by scotch.csua.berkeley.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with
ESMTP id
> >  f5SGLc934582 for <gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>; Thu,
> >  28 Jun 2001 09:21:38 -0700
> > X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 2-48,50-306
> > References: <1eccd01c0ff39$d8175380$10e0bece@paid4survey.net>
> >
> > This isn't me!  I am paranoid I know, but has anybody been receiving
> > e-mail from 'triphibious'  or is this just a @#&% advertisement sent
to
> > me and is a (new to me) standard practice in the e-industry?
> >
> > And yes I plan to get 'unlisted' ASAP.
> >
> > Gracias,
> > Glenn/Triphibious
> > This is my Science Fiction Alter Ego E-mail address.
> >
>
> I get spam e-mails quite frequently that were apparently sent by me. I
> contacted my ISP and was informed that it's quite common now among
spammers to
> use the e-mail address of the recipient as the sender to fool spam
guards.
> It's much more common among free e-mail providers (Juno, Hotmail,
Yahoo,
> etc.).
>
> Hope that helps.
> Brent Wolke