Dodgy email problem.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I have recently been receiving emails in my junk box from my own email address.

When I click on block sender, it is my email address that is showing as the sender.

Not sure what is happening/what I can do about it. Should I just delete my email account & set up another?

forgotmyname

Check the email headers to trace where the actual email is being sent from.

Its a common thing. Randomly generate an email or take from from a spammers list and send it from what appears to be your own address.

esuhl

There's no security checks built in to the email header fields, so you can make an email appear to come from any address you like -- even an email address that doesn't actually exist. Showing the "from" address as being the same as the "to" address is just a trick used by spammers to try to get through spam filters.

I'd just mark it as spam (if you have your own spam filters) and delete it. If I deleted my email account every time I received spam, I'd have to get a new one every few days!

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Ah right..so it isn't really anything to get concerned about?

The emails go direct to my junk box & I just block them from there. I never open emails from sources I don't recognize anyway.