[Hidden-tech] WEIRD(ER) SPAM?

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

Easy...

Terribly easy. There is (was) a website that would spoof telephone calls
for a fee, with two free trials. So I tried it.

At that time I had semi-retired and moved my business phone home. I also
had a home phone, and a phone at my mother's house in Canada. 

I used the free spoofing trial to call from the business phone to the home
phone, spoofing the Canadian number on the call. It went thru, so I ran
upstairs to read the number box and discovered it said "Nova Scotia." I
then read my mother's number.

Not only did the number spoof, but I faked the country!

Yes, that ought not be possible.


Jim Ussailis



Original email:
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From: Town Websites townwebsites at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:48:47 -0400
To: david at farkas.com, Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] WEIRD(ER) SPAM?


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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