Need help with strange E-mail

[Karnevil9]

This one is confusing me and has me a little unnerved. I have on three occassions recently at two different e-mail addresses, received an e-mail from....me.

The first one came to a yahoo address. The return address was my address. For the heck of it, I hit reply and send and sure enough it returned to my inbox. It had some form of money scam as the body of the letter. I changed my password in yahoo, and about two days later, I got another one with the same message inside.

Today I received another e-mail to my excite account. This one also listed me as the sender but The recipient block of the mail was listed as unknown. There was no message in this e-mail.

None of these e-mails had attachments to them, so I don't think they were viruses.

I have a wireless system with WEP 128 bit encryption enabled plus mac address filtering behind a router with a firewall. I also have Kerio Firewall installed, adaware, spybot, AVG, and Antivir. A check of my system by shields up says that I am invisable to the outside and have great protection.

Can anyone tell me what this is? How does someone get a mailing to my address by my address? Is this something to worry about, or is this a simple marketing scam technique.

[juicelooser]

It's nothing too bad to be worried about. Most likely, it's just a spammer changing the From: address on the emails they send out to your email to cover their tracks. They aren't actually getting in your yahoo account.

[Karnevil9]

Whew! That would be good if that is the case. But how do they do that? Is there a program that does it automatically. Spammers send out thousands of e-mails a day. It wouldn't be advantagious to do it by hand. Cut and paste, lol.

[juicelooser]

Originally Posted by Karnevil9 Whew! That would be good if that is the case. But how do they do that? Is there a program that does it automatically. Spammers send out thousands of e-mails a day. It wouldn't be advantagious to do it by hand. Cut and paste, lol.

Yeah, there are programs that send out thousands upon thousands of email a day. If spammers didn't send this many out, they would have no chance of making a profit.