RE: [PCTECH] Some one is spoofing my email

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Not much you can do about it.  It is VERY easy to spoof an email return
address.

Look at the "From" address on this.  It is yours.

In outlook, just go to Options and put a new "from" address in.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jim Essinger
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:42 PM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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> Jim Essinger
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