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

[Roger Taylor]

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