Falchoon

I just received an e-mail about some porn site from myself!? How did this happen?

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You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, 'Parking Fine.'So that was nice.

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laminge

ROFL

Your making money and you dont even know it!!!!

I beleive the sender of an email can change the details to equal your email address

So whats the site like?

XR_Strider_GuY

Mate talk about sneaky. Seems they have found a way to make it look like it came from yourself hence you can't trace them.

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3Toed

Yeah, I've had that happen to me as well. I've turned on the advanced headers so I can see the path the email took, and also since you won't send mail to yourself, just add your address to the block list.

If you ever do find the real address of one of the spammers, and if you are Hippy™ enough, you can write a batch job that will send them an email every 30 seconds or so with a message of appropriate nature. Obviously you'd fake the From address though! Leave the batch job running overnight. That'll sort them out.

Bloody spammers!

KenOath

^^^I don't think I need to add anything extra.

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Jase_ELXR8

quite easy to do...

(dons computer nerd helmet)

Especially if you telnet to an email server and use the SMTP protocal. You can send from anyone to anyone...

(rips off helmet and returns to normal)

EAFGhia

most modern OS come with inbuilt smtp engine, if not you can probably find freeware ones

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Mr Jucy

Yeah I've had the same happen to me heaps of times

Discovery

While I don't even pretend to understand half the words in this thread I would seriously consider talking to anyone who can manage to annoy whoever it is that has leaked my home email address to the spammers!

rsgerry

something i did that appeared to work, but could be risky, was actually reply to a spammer. his spam asked me to dial a number in the usa to unsubscribe to his crap. i replied that HE should remove my details. so he sent me another peice of spam. so i replied that i had warned him, and sent him something that he probably didnt like (after all, i dont like spam). i copy / pasted a pisture of a bloke with an axe in his head, with a promise that i could easily find worse.

i have had no more spam from this clown.

risky, but it was worth it :s6:

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