[pct-l] Spammer

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

Before I switched to broadband and new email addresses, I often got spam 
bounced back to me for invalid address, etcetera. None of it came from 
me. Instead some spammer just used my email address as the from. And the 
spammer never had access to my computer, just found my email address 
somewhere.

I'm now getting a few spams to this account. Some spammer has figured 
out how to harvest emails either off the net itself or from invading 
someone's email.

All of you who use Windows:  Please, please used a good anti-virus 
program and keep it updated.  Thanx.

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Tortoise

I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Lonetrail@aol.com wrote:
>  
> schizoaffective:
>  
> Thanks, I guess its nice to know the correct name of someone screwing you.  
> Its usually the government.
>  
> Lonetrail
> 
> 
> That  is not a hacker, it's a spammer.  Spammers will use other
> people's  email addresses for spamming to save themselves from getting
> all the bounce  messages from spam they sent to defunct or invalid
> addresses.
> 
> You  don't have to be a hacker to be able to send email with someone
> elses  address.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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