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Mail not mine received

oldwiring
oldwiring Posts: 2,452 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
My email address takes the form
name@ username.isp.com

I cannot recall it happening before, but my in box contained mail to
anor@notmyisp.de

What is the explanation for this? My SPAM protection level with my ISP is set high

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  • dave2
    dave2 Posts: 264 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I'm guessing the sender put you in BCC and that's the way your mail client displays it?
  • calvin25
    calvin25 Posts: 19 Forumite
    yes this is because the sender send multiple address at once via bcc option.
  • JustPassingBy
    JustPassingBy Posts: 710 Forumite
    oldwiring wrote: »

    What is the explanation for this? My SPAM protection level with my ISP is set high

    Basically, your ISP's spam filtering didn't recognise the mail as spam.

    On another level name@ username.isp.com is the To: address (note the ":"), which can be forged. It is not the envelope To (which cannot, for obvious reasons, be forged).
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