[ALUG] question about spam and email

Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 5 09:01:49 GMT 2009


I get an email apparently sent from my own address.  For example, my 
address is, lets say, george at george.net  The email as shown in the headers 
is as follows: (sparing you the men's health html content....)

____________________________________
X-Apparently-To: george at george.net via 217.146.188.205; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 
03:09:34 +0000
 X-YahooFilteredBulk: 89.255.66.166
 X-YMailISG: 
2SY32MQWLDseQtPq.viRb0HoD8citXfwb5yU.qQraFBDXDSdpqZYN3SwTpk2iqGxKbNzyJRIqyYInXz.PZigNBPBknbacSefTzLimGCItZrnjtmFQaaOfgZNXdcMWqDHKjumsKzHWpo8wDBn0BQrSqXXEBxy41e9PkcAi3StSZXQ5lU87DuIa4i_lxae6ynbT2_mj5nNPclFaR6tpR569bOJeJ7Y1eLll0nhygykKIG6bEfLNpfT9DBFkvrU7eOPmUFf5PGJ2DYy9z9yaX0jQSHomZcRBr3HaPmdJPgShRnlwaq_SzZMzh.RtEraDzH_Lfg2W3oR
 X-Originating-IP: [89.255.66.166]
 Authentication-Results: mta129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com  from=; 
domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=; dkim=neutral (no  sig)
 Received: from 89.255.66.166  (HELO amerblind.outbound.ed10.com) 
(89.255.66.166)
  by mta129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:09:32 +0000
 X-Message-Status: n:0
 X-SID-PRA:george at george.net
 X-SID-Result: Pass
 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:09:25 +0300 (EST)
 From: Allan Carver <george at george.net>
 To: <george at george.net>
 Subject: RE: USA Menshealth(Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:09:25 +0300)
 Mime-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/html;
  charset="ISO-8859-1"
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 Status: R
 X-Status: NC
 X-KMail-EncryptionState: 
 X-KMail-SignatureState: 
 X-KMail-MDN-Sent: 
________________________________

Is this just innocent spam, or has the account been compromised?



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