[LINK] Question re mail addressing

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:38 AM 3/02/2007, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>>But he is receiving spam addressed to joebloggs51 at myisp.com 
>><mailto:joebloggs51 at myisp.com> or joesblogg at myisp.com 
>><mailto:joesblogg at myisp.com> etc
>>
>>The ISP describes it as dictionary spam where the spammer uses 
>>every possible variation of a name in the hope of getting a hit and 
>>they just let them through while filtering other spam.
>So the question is: how can the message arrive at my inbox if it 
>doesn't have my address in the To: field? A mail server so badly 
>configured that it delivers stuff to "nearby" addresses is hard to 
>credit, so I am assuming that the spammer is obfuscating the To: 
>field - is that possible?

A guess. His real email is hidden in a BCC area of the header and he 
just doesn't see it.


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