Re: [PCTECH] Email ghosting

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah.  You can put any email address you want in the reply-to or from
address.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Email ghosting


> Saunders, Robin wrote:
> > I have just had a strange experience, as I've just received 2 emails,
1st
> > from my hotmail to my yahoo account and 2nd from my yahoo to the same
yahoo
> > account. Unfortunately, I never sent these emails, so how does this
> > happened. The message sent from my yahoo account was sitting in my sent
box.
> > Both emails looked auto generated with .cpl attachments
> > Do people need my yahoo password to do this?
>
> It's quite standard these days for worm viruses to send mail using
> spoofed email addresses.
>
> The .cpl attachment is simply the virus trying to replicate itself.
>
> Check out http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html for more
> information.
>
> david
>
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