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Dagonee
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Today I have received spam with the following names in the "From" box:

Porter
Katie
Sara
Nate
Eddy
Banana Girl
Bunny
Tracy
Booker
Steven

All with names close enough to a name I know from Hatrack to have to look twice. And this isn't the account I've published here.

Very strange.

Dagonee

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AntiCool
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That is weird.
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Farmgirl
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Possibly pulling them from Gmail? Uses addresses on your own machine?

It is common for spam to use a "spoof" -- meaning it finds a name or address on your own machine and inserts it into the "from" header

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Dagonee
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I don't know - it'd have to be pulling the words out of context from somewhere. Not all of these are in my email, and not all of them are usernames that a program would be able to parse out of my web browser. Plus, I don't think I have spyware.

Certainly, out of about 100 spam I received today, it would be surprising if some pattern didn't exist. It's just weird.

Dagonee
Edit: There was a Karl there, too. With a K.

[ February 17, 2005, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]

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Jonathan Howard
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But no JH...

I somehow feel bad not being part of the FakeSpam community [Wink] .

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I either have exceptional spam-blocking stuff on my email accounts or I'm just not ubercool enough to get spammed. Either way, I can't say I'm terribly disappointed to not have to wade through a bunch of crap to get the emails that are important to me...not that I'm cool enough for many of those either...

[Cry]

[ February 17, 2005, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Boon ]

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Elizabeth
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Is it spam, or just a weird, empty message with an attachment? I had hundreds coming in for a while, and then they disappeared.
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Dagonee
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Defintely spam.
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