From: Ant (antallan@mac.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 13:10:52 MDT
> ... was not really the address from which they were sent from.
One too many from, here… The superfluous preposition meme strikes again!
On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 19:03 Europe/London, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [Blunderov]
> I have been getting a lot of mail returned to me as undeliverable. The
> trouble is I never sent out the mail which is being returned to me.
> Some mail is entitled 'that movie', a title which I have never used,
> some is entitled 'my details' which IS a title I have used sometimes
> in my former scambaiting activities.
>
> <snip>
>
>
> [rhinoceros]
> No need to worry, Blunderov. We all receive them these days.
>
> Someone who had your e-mail address in their address book was infected
> by a virus. Then the virus started sending out infected e-mails to
> addresses it found there, using your own address, which was also found
> there, as a return address ("From:") .
>
> Some of these emails were sent to addresses which were no longer
> valid. So, those messages were "returned" to you as undelivered,
> because they appeared as sent by you.
>
> And don't worry about looking bad. One can easily see in the headers
> that the "From:" address was not really the address from which they
> were sent from.
>
>
> If you are still curious about the route this message followed, you
> can follow the "Received from" "by" lines, starting from the last one
> and going upwards. Keep in mind that some of the bottom "Received
> from" "by" lines can also be fake.
>
>
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