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Sep 30
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, 2008 at 9:46pm
The Ruptured Duck
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Recently, I was notified by some of my friends that they have received emails from my hotmail account which appear to be selling electronics, pornography, and black market goods. I of course did not send these. I did some research and found that this is referred to as a "Joe Job" where spammers forge email adresses and send spam.
Has this happened to anyone before? Does anyone have any advice? I plan on reporting this to my ISP so I am not denied service, and I sent a brief email to my contact list explaining this.
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Have never heard of that so obviously I haven't had it happen to my knowledge.
Are spammers running out of fake e-mail adresses and now have to resort to stealing legitimate ones?
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I from time to time, receive spam from my own E-mail address. Although my brother once showed me how easy it is to display a different E-mail address on a account, so i dont worry about it too much.
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Isn't that the nature of a worm? They infect email accounts, and self replicate, sending themselves out to contacts in your address book?
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