Forged Spam claiming to be from "eidinet.com"

If you are here you are probably interested in getting informed about antispam, or you got spam claiming to be from EIDINET. Please let us reassure you, we are VERY antispam. We would never send spam. We also report the coming spam to the originator's abuse department.  A few  "smart " guys (spammers)  will try to get even with us - and many other well known companies - by forging our name in the From-line of the spam. 
Also "marketers 'spoof' email addresses to make it appear that you've clogged your own inbox with unsolicited messages."

If you get spam mail claiming to be from EIDINET, please look at the headers carefully (how to: Reading Email Headers). You should see one or more "Received:" lines at the top of the message. 
[We received to our turn a virus email apparently coming from microsoft.com! Of cource the real sender was NOT Microsoft's Inet Department  "inet@microsoft.com"].

View Full Headers
In order to determine the PC that the email really originated from, you will have to review the full email headers (also known as headerlines or email-envelope). For an example of a page that explains how to view "full headers" in the popular email programs Pegasus Mail, Outlook and Outlook Express, Netscape, Eudora, Pine, elm and mutt, see: http://www.panix.com/help/headers.html.


Tracking the real source of email spam.  Automatic Full-Headers Analysis 

What is email spoofing:
Email spoofing is the practice of changing your name in email so that it looks like the email came from somewhere or someone else. >> more		 How do I get my email program to reveal the full, unmodified email?

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Reading Email Headers

  
Email spoofing - W32.Klez
" Some variants of this worm (W32.Klez) use a technique known as "spoofing." If so, the worm randomly selects an address that it finds on an infected computer. It uses this address as the "From" address that it uses when it performs its mass-mailing routine. Numerous cases have been reported in which users of uninfected computers received complaints that they sent an infected message to someone else.

For example, Linda Anderson is using a computer that is infected with W32.Klez.E@mm; Linda is not using an antivirus program or does not have current virus definitions. When W32.Klez.gen@mm performs its emailing routine, it finds the email address of Harold Logan. It inserts Harold's email address into the "From" portion of an infected message that it then sends to Janet Bishop. Janet then contacts Harold and complains that he sent her an infected message, but when Harold scans his computer, Norton AntiVirus does not find anything--as would be expected--because his computer is not infected." >> more

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From:Wolxxx
Subject :Re: pr0n spammer spoofing my email address
Newsgroups:news.admin.net-abuse.email

Date:2002-07-12 18:55:07 PST

" mikey <mikey@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Yesterday afternoon, I surprisingly recieved  bounce messages in my
> email box.  All of them were advertising a pr0n web-cam.  I looked at
> the messages and freaked because my email address[0] was on the 'From:'
> field.

Don't sweat it.  Spammers do this all the time.

If you only got # bounces then it is just being sent by some spamware
that randomly picks a To and a From address from its lists of
addresses.

One thing you can do is make a bit of lemonade with this.  Put up a
web page  explaining how to read headers to figure
out where email really came from.  This will help the newbies complain
to the right place.  Many folks will blindly complain to the wrong
ISP, where the complaint is probably discarded.  If even a small
percentage of the folks learn to complain to the right abuse dept the
spam reporting rate of 1:10000 will shoot way up. "
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