I don't know if we can ever know this, but I'm curious. In the past few weeks I've been getting spam to my personal email address that says it's from Applied Systems (or different people at applied), the actual email address that's sending it is some random yahoo.com email. How is this being generated? As far as I can tell, I've never used my home email for anything w/applied. So now I'm worried, that I have something that's infected somewhere.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!
The email addresses are spoofed, as you noticed. Probably your name/email was associated with either a stolen list or a compromised account somewhere.
Quote from: Mark on January 15, 2013, 11:10:15 AM
The email addresses are spoofed, as you noticed. Probably your name/email was associated with either a stolen list or a compromised account somewhere.
Agreed. Yahoo has had numerous issues in the last couple of years. I've gotten spam that has said it has come from several friends and family, all of them having Yahoo accounts. Of course, if you look carefully, it's not really from their account, but it sure looks like it.
I look at the properties of the email where I usually see all the others the email was sent to and they're all different variations of my address. It also says the domain it came from and the return path. All that tells me it's bogus.
I'm nosy like that ;)
I just checked one this morning since it was the 2nd or 3rd time from the same "person" and found that the domain is in.................Nigeria! How funny is that? It wasn't the Nigerian money spam though.
I got rid of all these by telling MX Logic not to accept emails from outside the US. I actually added a list of TLDs that I would not accept from so I can easily manage it when we actually DO need to pass emails over seas. Which, for some reason we do now and then.
MX Logic gives very granular control.
As MX Logic convert from Appriver totally agree! ;)
I don't believe we have our personal e-mail running through Appriver or MXLogic.
But even office e-mail is hard to limit to only the US. We have a definite need to have Canada, Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, some "eastern" European countries and even Japan and a few others open. Insurance company employees appear to travel all over the place and have servers all over the place. They can be sitting at their desk in London and the e-mail still comes from some place else. Then there are the computer utilities of which many come from outside the US. Israel and South Africa cannot just be blocked without any thought either.
MX Logic will let you block in any way you want and will also let you white list in any way you want. So, you can block country top level domains and allow others. Or, you can block all of them and white list specific companies, single addresses, etc. Basically, you have full control to do whatever you'd need.
Thanks everyone for their replies. Alice, i normally view my personal email on my phone, so I didn't get as far as viewing properties. At work, I do this as well :D.
I just thought it was odd they were stating to be coming from Applied, it was a little too well targeted!
I do not filter my personal email through anything, if this keeps up, i just might start.
Lynne