[ale] Spam???

[Pete Hardie]

On 9/23/05, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> Today i received an email that appearred to have come from myself. When
> I viewed my mailbox file I noticed that the header included an email
> address of " chaos at mauimail.com"
>
> I checked out the web site and it claims to be antispam but it also
> appears to be a marketing company that is offering email services.
>
> Has anyone received anything like this? The text of the message is about
> M$ Orfice. Anyone interested in seeing it, I'd be happy to send it to you.

I haven't gotten that particular one, but I've received similar
"self-addressed" spam.  It's an easy way to avoid bounce messages
flooding the spam server - set the sender address as the receipient.
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