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For the last several months I have been receiving spam addressed to my website E-Mails. Since I have them redirected to my personal E-mail address this is where I get them. But, the funny thing about all of this is that the e-mail address they are originating from is from the same website address that it is sent to. Example: From: tom@tomreviews.net To: tom@tomreviews.net. I am just curious as to how they are doing this, is there an app or program that is being used. If so how do I block them or stop this from happening? I am getting tired of marking them spam and deleting them.

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Hello
Did you solve this problem with spam emails?posted the same problem here before but l did not find any solution that worked.

I redirected to my gmail account it seems to filter them out better

I too get something from here

Hi Tommy.

I replied to a similar question recently. I get 100's of emails selling all sorts of things, from my own email address every day/week - so many others must be getting them too. The key is in spotting them. If I get em email from tom@tomreviews.net - and it's for something I know is unrelated to what your site is about, I'll know it's spam. I can also check the email headers (depending on what email program you use) to see exactly who it did come from.

It is simple to spoof an email address - to make it look like it came from tom@tomreviews.net - as opposed to spam@spammyscammers.net - the mail protocols allow you to set a different "from" email than actually sends it - using one line of code.

Once that's programmed into a spambot - and your email address is out there (because you're promoting your business), it will get picked up by these bots, and added to their list. It's an unfortunate side-effect of an almost unpoliceable internet.

I use GMail - and it's good at spotting these - and usually marks them, if not as spam - but as suspicious, and gives you a warning message.

So, no comfort I'm sure - but you're not alone!

Cheers, Mark

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I have had the same thing happen on Yahoo and Verizon emails. It is not just wa.

I just finished 'Googling' about this....it is fairly common and I could not see one readily available solution other than change your password and one technical article that was not of much help either. aaaagh!

Are you using the WA hosting email?
WA email platform have really lot of spam and not able to change password. Seriously this need to be imporve

Yeah Tom I agree with Tony that I would check with support about that one.
Hope they can help you!
Sheila

Wow Tom,

It appears as though you are sending yourself spam emails.

Just kidding of course but it looks to me like a pretty sophisticated system to make it appear as though you are sending the emails.

I would check with support and see what they say.

Let us know if they can help please and thank you Tom,

Tony

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