[Hidden-tech] WEIRD(ER) SPAM?

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You can spoof anyone’s email address in the from, reply to etc fields.  Best you can do is look at the headers and find out where the email originated.

 

For your own email, you can assist people (including yourself) in identifying phishing use of your email by setting up hard fail SPF records.

 

It is well past the time that both emails and phone numbers should be easy to identify as legit.  The technology to do so is easy, it is the will to do it and deploy it that is lacking.

 

Charlie

 

From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of David F. Farkas
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 10:02 AM
To: hidden-discuss <Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Subject: [Hidden-tech] WEIRD(ER) SPAM?

 

Hello mavens...

 

For the past week or so I have been getting spam from... myself! At least the return email address is mine. 

 

They are obvious phishing emails with either a link to a 'document from work' or a job offer with a link to click.

 

I can't filter them out, or even report them as spam, because that would mean reporting my own email address.

 

Is anyone else getting these? Are they a thing now? Is there a strategy that will work or will they be a continuing nuisance to manage manually?

 

Thanx

 

dff

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