[mythtv] Spam originating from my email address

Peter Bennett pgbennett at comcast.net
Sat Jun 25 22:30:39 UTC 2016


On 06/25/2016 04:48 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-06-25 at 16:19 -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> There is spam coming from pgbennett at comcast.com, including to
>> webmaster at mythtv.org. It is not from me. I don't know where it is
>> coming
>> from, somebody is spoofing my email address.
> That is what SPF is for.  Surely Comcast are employing it.  If they are
> and the spam is still making it through sites that use it to verify
> senders, then the spammer is also on Comcast and you should be able to
> report it to Comcast for action.
>
> A look at the headers will make it obvious if that is what is going on
> or not.  If the spammer isn't on Comcast, anyone getting spam forged
> from you needs to also employ SPF.
>
> b.
>

It is clearly not coming from comcast. It is going to mythtv wiki,
linkedin and my former employer.. I think they all rejected it as spam.


IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:giC8SB1bB/bo3e91smDT+DRfVm0co
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X-IPAS-Result: A2D24gDR4m5XVmXAX8oXAj0GgnBOVn2C
Subject: [SUSPECTED SPAM] it's so unusual
X-CGO-SPAM: SUSPECT
X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,528,1459828800";
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X-SMTPAUTH: True
Received: from unknown (HELO rwxc.com) ([202.95.192.101])
  by fvipsab05.cogeco.net with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2016 16:05:01 -0400
From:  <pgbennett at comcast.net>
To: "LinkedIn Updates" <messages-noreply at linkedin.com>, "LinkedIn"
 <notifications-noreply at linkedin.com>, "MythTV Official Wiki"
 <wiki at mythtv.org>, "OPEN ATTACH" <wwwwww.16 at outlook.com>, "Pega Picks"
 <pegasolutions at pega.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:05:05 +0300
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Hello,
I thought you might like the stuff I found by chance, it seems so
exciting and unusual, please take a look here
<http://sesawitri.scienceofintention.com/lnefo>
Yours faithfully, pgbennett at comcast.net






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