Strange spam (email)

[199002003]

I am not sure why suddenly getting the email from myself to myself and the content is just number, Eg: 996; can anyone tell me why? Am I spam myself?

Many thanks,
-Steve

 

[MiniOrganMorgan]

Have you checked out the Message Headers? That should tell you the origin of the mail, ie if it's internal or if it's come in from the internet.

 

[199002003]

Send from my smtp email address to my smtp email address, the subject is just numbers. any thoughts? it seems like I try to spam myself.

 

[MiniOrganMorgan]

Sorry, I mean in Outlook, right click the message, head to Options, then in the panel at the bottom of the resulting dialogue will give you the Internet Message Headers. If you don't recognise some of the ip addresses/server names, then it's probably arrived from the internet.

 

[199002003]

This is what I got:

Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
Received: from pcflor.org ([200.49.169.18] RDNS failed) by exchange2003.123.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:21:41 -0700
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:14:42 -0600
To: "kentr" <kentr@123.com>
From: "kentr" <kentr@123.com>
Subject: 586876
Message-ID: <dbhqitiezrzrfccfwrd@123.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-Path: kentr@123.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jun 2006 19:21:41.0380 (UTC) FILETIME=[46330C40:01C688D5]

Thoughts?

Thanks,
-Steve

 

[nsantin]

Received: from pcflor.org ([200.49.169.18] RDNS failed) by exchange2003.123.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);

Here is the real sender.

 

[199002003]

Any way I can block it other than block on my firewall?

Thanks,

 

[Zelandakh]

IMF and configure the SPF to reject emails. Although that will can a lot!!

 

[j93saturn]

You can always look at an Enterprise (Server-side) Anti-Spam Solution. GFI makes one I use at many of my clients. It has been great for me.

James
Security +
MCP NT 4.0 / 2000 / 2003
MCSA 2000
MCSE NT 4.0

 

[199002003]

Thanks, I already got the IMF in placed; I guess I need the Server-side Anti-Spam Solution.