Watch out for e-mail hijack scams

I received an interesting e-mail the other day. It was an advertisement for a Web site (i.e. spam) that supposedly offered Swiss watches for sale. Now I get a lot of this type of spam every day, but there was one thing that set this one apart – it was from me!

I displayed the full headers and discovered that the “reply to” field was actually another Yahoo account. I reported the spam to Yahoo, which promptly checked my account and discovered that a spammer was “hijacking” my e-mail address and copying it into the “From” header of the e-mail. Luckily Yahoo Customer Service assured me my account had not been accessed.

 

source:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/111307-yoke-user-view.html?fsrc=rss-columnssource:

 

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