Hi Capn,
Spammers have more than a few tools to fox the casual recipient - hence the number of phishing emails you get supposedly from banks, nigerian millionaires & so on. If you download the headers you can look more closely at the origin.
For example, below I've copied the header from a recent mail in my spam.
This was a genuine one: I've deleted phishers & so don't have one to show you. But you will see that many have a number of 'hops' in them - i.e. they are relayed through several machines, and you get 'received from xxx'; 'received from yyy'. The bottom one might give a clue to the originator.
In Google Chrome you right-click the sender, then click 'View page source'; in Outlook right click again and then click 'options'. In the latter case, the headers are in a box at the bottom of the pop-up.
It might give some idea of the origin of your spam... but, then again it probably won't
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Have fun,
Jim
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