[Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it [END of Thread]

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

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73, Eric
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On 9/25/2010 4:28 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:12:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Ron D'Eau Claire, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Often the "virus" looks through the e-mail addresses stored on the
>> machine it has infected and chooses one at random to spoof as the
>> originator.
> Remember (or, well, learn for the first time if you're not a nerd),
> the From: header in emails means exactly nothing as far as determining
> where the mail came from.  It's purely cosmetic, and trivially
> settable, as evinced by looking at the From: on this mail (hint: I'm
> not actually Ron  :).
>
> So the From: on a scam email doesn't mean anything other than
> "whatever person or program sent this happened to see that email
> address somewhere somehow, and decided to use it as the From:".  No
> need for it to ever have been within a thousand miles of any system
> actually associated with that person.  Of course, they often DO come
> from either local infection of that person's system, or a system of a
> correspondent of theirs that has the address sitting in their address
> book just waiting to be harvested, but that's just a way of finding a
> handy address to claim, not a requirement of any sort for sticking it
> on the mail.
>
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