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Old 4th August 2006 | 21:22
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Bern Oulli
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From: Wivenhoe, not too far from the Clacton VOR
A new (to me) twist on spam

I have been running Mailwasher for a long time now, suitably updated of course, and it has been very good at dumping the spam. Suddenly today I received 6 that slipped through the filter. They were all from people called Trudy, Roanne and other exotic girly names and advertising the usual stuff to enlarge various parts of my anatomy (no comment). Examination of the properties of the senders showed that they all allegedly originated from me, e.g. Trudy ([email protected]). How do they do that? And more to the point, how do I stop it without putting my own email address on the blacklist?
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