[Coco] spoof e-mail "from coco3.com"

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Mon Feb 22 21:42:56 EST 2010


At 06:52 PM 2/22/2010, you wrote:

>This is a generic template, I have seen them come into a few different

>domains. Just replace "coco3.com" with domain of the recipient (and

>set sender = recipient).

>

>It's trivial to spoof a message from any address to any other address.

> The spammers have recently found that some spam filters (mistakenly)

>will pass emails coming from the same address they are sent to, and so

>this has become a popular technique. Most spam filtering services

>have compensated by marking email from and to the same address and

>originating outside their own networks as very likely being spam.

>

>Chances are very low that anyone else saw this message in the form you

>saw it. They would have seen it come from their own email address and

>with their own domain in place of coco3.com.

>

>-Aaron



I get the kind of e-mail you're talking about about a hundred times a
day. This one was different.
It struck me as being something from a bot that harvested the site's
member list then tried to contact each member on the my behalf.
Anyway, apparently this wasn't the case.



--
~ Roger Taylor





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