Should I be worried?
A portion of the spam directed to my primary business email arrives in my inbox with very familiar reply to addresses or names.
I'll get spam that says it's from ME, with my familiar name in the from field, or perhaps I'll get spam that uses the email prefix of a coworker.
let's say, for example my office manager's name is Optimus Prime, and his email address is oprime@autobots.com. Now when I get a real message from him, my inbox will show Optimus Prime in the from field. It's obvious when he's being spoofed b/c the phony message says "oprime". What's strange is that on an otherwise uneventful spam filled day, I could get several messages with spoofed reply to addresses that resembel several co-workers' email addresses.
What's going on here?
Any ideas where the spam jerks are getting this info from? We have a late model sonic wall firewall that was configured by professionals, as well as solid antivirus software on all machines in the office.
thx,
R
A portion of the spam directed to my primary business email arrives in my inbox with very familiar reply to addresses or names.
I'll get spam that says it's from ME, with my familiar name in the from field, or perhaps I'll get spam that uses the email prefix of a coworker.
let's say, for example my office manager's name is Optimus Prime, and his email address is oprime@autobots.com. Now when I get a real message from him, my inbox will show Optimus Prime in the from field. It's obvious when he's being spoofed b/c the phony message says "oprime". What's strange is that on an otherwise uneventful spam filled day, I could get several messages with spoofed reply to addresses that resembel several co-workers' email addresses.
What's going on here?
Any ideas where the spam jerks are getting this info from? We have a late model sonic wall firewall that was configured by professionals, as well as solid antivirus software on all machines in the office.
thx,
R