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Date:      Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:34:43 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Martin Moeller <moeller@bsdsi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Maike Moeller <moeller@chemie.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:   Re: I get mail from my own address!
Message-ID:  <20020819090443.GC64687@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020819105902.GA39997@piranha.bsdsi.com>
References:  <20020819105902.GA39997@piranha.bsdsi.com>

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On Monday, 19 August 2002 at 10:59:02 +0000, Martin Moeller wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Yesterday I received a spam mail from my own email address. I assume that is
> a trick to pass through my procmail system or something?

It's a particularly nasty kind of spam.  I get a lot of it as well.
I've written a web page about it: http://www.lemis.com/lemisspam.html

> The header of the mail only shows this:
>
>
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Betreff: Mother finds 71K in 15 year olds closet
> Datum: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:22:09 -0500
> Von: moeller@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
> Rückantwort: moeller@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
> An: moeller@chemie.uni-hamburg.de

That looks like Microsoft.  You should have a whole lot more there,
notably the (untranslated) Received-From: headers.

Are you in Papendamm 6?  I studied there decades ago.

Greg
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