[Vwdiesel] Spam

[R. Brown]

Yes, usually all the spammers do is harvest e-mail addresses and add them to a big list on 
some server someplace.  Then they just go down that huge list and the first address on the 
list is made to appear to send spam to all the other addresses in the list, then the 2nd 
address is used and on down the list.  So as I always say, if you receive such spam, "you" 
also appear to send it, at least to someone on the planet.

One time about 12 years ago, I actually got some spam from "myself", that is my e-mail 
address was the sender and the recipient.  My e-mail address is actually just a forwarding 
service, there is no account to sign into or use to send out e-mail from.  So I know it 
was not hacked into as there is nothing there to hack into.  All I can do with that 
service is to change where e-mail sent to my address is forwarded to.

But the spammers can collect the address for their big list.  At the most, they gain 
access to the account's address book, but it is not like they are logging into gmail or 
hotmail or yahoo or whatever e-mail service and sending out those spam e-mails.  They set 
up mail servers all over the place, often on hijacked computers and those servers send out 
the spam.



On 2/22/2013 1:47 PM, Travis . wrote:
> The hard part about the spamming-they may not know they are doing it or they know but can't do anything about it. A lot of times when they get the account it directs incoming emails elsewhere and wipes everything. My father had this issue a couple months ago. Knew someone else that had it a year ago. Hard to get fixed even with password changing.
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   Roger