I maintain a mail account at deja.com (continued by google), as spam
protection for my real e-mail account. Every now and then I log on and
delete the accumulated spam.
I logged on the other day and found a bounce notification message. I was
surprised at this and opened it. Imagine my surprise to find that the
original (bounced) message had been spam, apparently sent from me!
It seems that someone had somehow picked my e-mail address to use in forging
their e-mail header. Worse yet, the spam was porn spam.
How much worse can things get? Up till now, I at least had the comfort that
unsolicited e-mail (spam, viruses, etc) was in my control, and that with a
little care I could protect myself from most of it. Now, I don't even have
that. [Nickee Sanders via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 76]
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