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Internet and Security Help Desk
Someone sent me an email from my own address and it was not me
This is a technique known as email spoofing. Its
easy to create an email that appears to come from a different email than
it does. In the from field in outlook express you can change this to say
anything you like.
Spam programs will automatically copy the recipients
email into the from field to cover the true origin. Viruses also use
this technique by randomly selecting someone's email from the infected
PC's address book to make it appear as if the virus came from that PC.
You can trace the real sender by using the help of www.usus.org/elements/tracing. Bare in
mind that spammers can spoof these details as well and there are even
programs that can send email completely anonymously.
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