Re: [PCTECH] Some one is spoofing my email

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not really.  Spoofing is rather simple.  As an example, go to outlook
express (or whatever email program you use) and just put a different email
address in the "reply to address" of your email settings.  There ya go, you
spoofed someone's address.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Essinger" <esinger@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: [PCTECH] Some one is spoofing my email


> Looking for any ideas.  Some one is spoofing my email address as the
return
> for a BUNCH of spam.  I am getting inundated with returns for spam that I
> have not originated.  Is there a way (short of email address  change) to
> find and stop these creeps?  Is there some entity that I can report them
> too that will help me stop this form of identity theft?
>
> I have scanned my pc for virus presence - and found nothing.  I am behind
a
> fire wall both here and at home,  and I see not traffic coming from me, so
> I don't think that my PC has been hijacked.  My ISP requires my password
to
> use the smtp outgoing server, and I have changed my password for my email,
> so I don't think they are bouncing anything off my ISP outgoing server.
>
> Any other steps you can think of that I can take to protect myself?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
>
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