RE: seaint spam

Definitely looks like spoofed email address.

 

Used the latest one (a lovely message that appeared to offer to help me be "bigger") to check out the Internet email headers.  Based upon the Message ID, the message originated from an IP address in the Netherlands.  Unless, Shafat (which basically is the seaint-ad@seaint.org address) was traveling abroad in the Netherlands, it was not him and someone spoofed the email address. Further more, it appears that they BCC'd the seaint address so that we would all get spammed (it is a SEAINT message, but my filter did not move it to the appropriate folder since a BCC'd message does not show that address as a "sent to" address, which is what my filter uses).

 

End result is that it certainly seems like a spoofed email address...and yes, it is VERY, VERY easy to do...and generally rather easy to spot if you look in the Internet headers.

 

Regards,

 

Scott

Adrian, MI

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From: Bill Polhemus [mailto:bill@polhemus.cc]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:21 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Re: seaint spam

Gordon Goodell wrote:

Over the past couple weeks I’ve received a couple emails from seaint-ad@seaint.org, hawking herbal supplements or some such thing.  I assume this list would have no part in spamming me, but I’m wondering:  does this happen to anyone else or is something cloning addresses out of my inbox?

Gordon Goodell

Alta, WY

I haven't seen them, but that may mean they're getting trapped by my spam filter.

It's very easy to spoof email addresses. VERY easy.
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