Yahoo spam emails

[Maggie]

I am regularly receiving spam emails from my email address with no contact
name to reply to, requesting personal details. How do spam users manage to
set up the same email address as a yahoo user?

 

[Bob I]

They spoof it. Since you are not going to send yourself an e-mail,
simply add your address to the blocked senders.

 

[Dave A]

That's not particularly helpful, Bob, especially if like me you forward an
email from your works email account to your home account to work on a
document later!!

 

[Tom Willett]

Then you'll have to live with it.

: That's not particularly helpful, Bob, especially if like me you forward an
: email from your works email account to your home account to work on a
: document later!!
:
:
: "Bob I" wrote:
:
: > They spoof it. Since you are not going to send yourself an e-mail,
: > simply add your address to the blocked senders.
: >
: > Maggie wrote:
: >
: > > I am regularly receiving spam emails from my email address with no
contact
: > > name to reply to, requesting personal details. How do spam users
manage to
: > > set up the same email address as a yahoo user?
: >
: > .
: >

 

[Bob I]

Then it isn't being mailed from your yahoo account to your home, is it.
Please think about what you are blocking and where.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That's not particularly helpful, Bob, especially if like me you forward an
email from your works email account to your home account to work on a
document later!!

For some it'll be helpful, for some not.

Unfortunately, because of the way the email system was designed, it's too easy to
spoof return addresses and not a lot that can be done about it.

You could probably get around the problem by doing something like this though:

WHITELIST any email with a subject line containing some magic work ... your pet's
name or something unlikely.

BLACKLIST any email coming from your address.

Since whitelisting trumps blacklisting, any email with a subject line including
"FIDO" will be permitted, regardless of return address.