It happened to me!

[BewareofNick]

Barry mentioned this a while back at the bottom of a thread that it happened to him. I have received two e-mails so far...from ME!

 

here's the text:

 

 

Subj: My pics 3891

Date: 9/14/2001 11:05:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

 

 

 

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by

([email protected]) on Saturday, September 15, 2001 at 05:02:54

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: Hey babe!! I finally got my nude pictures up on a website. If you want to see them go to http://www.virtue.nu/mypixs. Write back, can you send your pic again please, I'm sorry I think I lost it. If you don't want to type all that in just click here hehe i know you're lazy. Bye Sweetie!!

 

 

 

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Subject: My pics 3891

 

 

How does this happen? I checked my outbasket and there's nothing there, so I knwo my account ahsn't been compromised, but when I reply to it, the e-mail comes back to me!

 

I have forwarded both to AOL TOS, but have not received a response. Has this happened to anyone else? Barry, did you receive a response?

[Barry]

It has now happened to several friends of mine also. All of us have reported it to AOL via customer service email and requesting an explanation.

 

In all cases AOL has NOT responded. Who'd have thunk it?

[BewareofNick]

Wow. Talk about response time! AOL could take a few lessons from you, Barry. I forwarded mine to TOSEMAIL1. No luck there either.

[Barry]

LOL I'm not always this prompt. I just happen to be moderating tonight. Let me know if you get a response. :-)

[Boston Guy]

BofN:

 

(As an aside, I have to tell you that every time I type 'BofN' I translate that mentally to '7of9'... sorry! :-) )

 

There's no mystery here at all. Anyone can do this with most any program that gives you control of the email parameters. You can even do it with Netscape (but not IE or with AOL, to the best of my knowledge).

 

The spammers use programs to capture the screen names of people who are online. They capture those and keep them in a database for use in outgoing messages. What some of them are clearly doing is setting the parameters on the program that is formatting the outgoing mail to reflect the recipient's email address. It's just another attempt to try to get you to open the message.

 

BG

[+ deej]

As I've said before, it's really easy to do this.

 

ISP's (including AOL and MSN) are cracking down on "blast" e-mails sent to thousands of addresses. So they send those SPAM e-mails to individual addresses instead and it's real easy to set the "from" address to be the same as the "to" address.

 

It travels as a "single" e-mail instead of a "blast" going out to a mailing list. You can do it with a few lines of code in a Microsoft Word macro.

 

Nothing to be worrried about. Pissed off? Yes. Worried, no.

[BewareofNick]

>BofN:

>

>(As an aside, I have to

>tell you that every time

>I type 'BofN' I translate

>that mentally to '7of9'... sorry!

>:-) )

 

Boston Guy, I am flattered. Perhaps we can share a regeneration alcove sometime?

 

WoW! Now I know who to dress up as for Halloween

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

BofN,

 

I never think of you in the same way (as before) again. Wow, brains and beauty, and...

 

:-)

[+ deej]

>brains and beauty, and...

 

and a little hardware? }>

 

(Sorry, having just come from the cockring thread it's the first thing that popped into my head.)

[Troyster]

I have a theory -- but you are going to have me prove it. Did you get a message that looked at all similar to this one -- the header saying it was from some partciular email -- and then did you use the remove me feature on that email? If so I think the remove me feature in fact put your name into the from pot on the top of the message where your email address in show up. Does that make sense when you read it?

 

Something very similar happened to me. Its very inciped too because the message ID changes all the time so you can not block the sender of that message.

 

As for AOL and its "tosspam" I think that is nothing more than a dead letter office. Has anyone ever gotten a reply from AOL about spam that wa not spam itself? AOL's customer service is the pits and just try and complain to them -- can you find a real live person to complain to? Personally I think all AOL users should gang up on AOL and at the same moment forward them all the spam we get in our in boxes. Let' see how they like it?!?!?!?!

[BewareofNick]

Troyster, I never click those remove me links. I learned from a friend long ago that's how they confirm e-mail addresses are valid.

[BewareofNick]

Well, gentlemen, would you care to be assimilated? Resistance IS futile!