I am not a spammer!

So recently, I started recieving bonce back message in my inbox indicating of people complaining about spam messages getting sent to them. It would appear that someone has begun forging my domain name (cotellese.net) in order to send out spam.

How can this happen?

Well, it’s actually quite easy for spammers to replace the From and Reply to fields with an email address of their choice. If someone hits a reply it will come to whatever address is in either of those fields.

Where did the mail really come from?

Actually, I don’t know but I’m trying to figure it out. My guess is it’s one or more spam bots so tracking down the perps might be a challenge.

If you’ve received one of these emails, I apologize and I’m asking for your help. Please forward me the original email including the email headers. Inside the headers I can find the ip address of the computer sending the email.

What a pain.