Weird email...

onomatopoeia99

JoeS95 wrote: »

How do they do it so it says it came from my email address?

The SMTP protocol at its core is designed to allow you to send giving any From and / or Reply to address.



Imagine this. I get a piece of paper and write you a letter. At the top right of the page I give the following name and address:


Mrs T. May
10 Downing Street
London


I put it in an envelope and send it to you. You receive a letter apparently from the (at time of writing) prime minister. The Royal Mail don't open it and check it really came from that person before sending it on. Email is like that. There are bodges that can be forced on top to try to verify senders (SPF, DKIM) but they often create as many problems as they solve.

kim81

yh ignore that. they are just hoping people are scared enough to send them some money.

ballyblack

any email that starts off 'HELLO!' No name, is usually a scam

sender has no details about you

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boliston

i seem to get several of these emails each week

JoeS95

Just to clarify I was the one that changed it a few days back myself I didn’t mean someone else had done it.

baza52

forgotmyname wrote: »

Ask the expert hacker how updating software on your computer protects a router.

Pretend your falling for the scam and ask them what bitcoins are and how you purchase them. Keep them going and ask them if $722 is enough to protect your computer which cost you $37,000

Make it seem like $1000 is nothing, you earn double that every day

Imagine them sitting there drooling that they caught someone with money who will fall for the scam. Just keep stringing them along.

Can they help protect your laptop and your phones also.

and how exactly do you "string them along" when the senders email address is yours?
If you reply to the email it will just send it to you.
They dont have any contact details just a bitcoin wallet for you to pay money into.

Robisere

I had one like this yesterday. I am a 73 year old disabled guy, with several recent operations, Prostate enlarged, a number of internal bits removed and a cancer sufferer (Pancreas beaten, Spleen removed, Lymph glands ongoing)


I found the description of my activities to be hilarious. I only wish I could have carried out some of them!


Delete, ignore, have a laugh at someone who spends so much time typing up this crap.

boliston

baza52 wrote: »

and how exactly do you "string them along" when the senders email address is yours?
If you reply to the email it will just send it to you.
They dont have any contact details just a bitcoin wallet for you to pay money into.

I'm wondering if there is any clever way to send an email back to the server shown in the email header - my last spam of this type had the following header:

Received: from 095160159124.dynamic-ra-12.vectranet.pl (095160159124.dynamic-ra-12.vectranet.pl [95.160.159.124])

Chino

boliston wrote: »

I'm wondering if there is any clever way to send an email back to the server

To what end?

Lorian

boliston wrote: »

I'm wondering if there is any clever way to send an email back to the server shown in the email header - my last spam of this type had the following header:

Received: from 095160159124.dynamic-ra-12.vectranet.pl (095160159124.dynamic-ra-12.vectranet.pl [95.160.159.124])

Please don't. There is enough backscatter without purposefully adding some.

Please don't EVER reply to spam.

If it's actually sent from a spammer's monitored email address it will result in you being flagged as alive and you'll even get more targeted spam.

If it's from someone else's spoofed email address you generate backscatter, as do many mail systems that automatically reply when they reject spam and send 55x errors incorrectly to the spoofed address.

Always focus on blocking the in-bound spam. Pretty much all of these can easily blocked by countermeasures on any reasonable mail system.