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On 18/01/15 12:26, NW wrote: > I do occasionally send an email to myself for test purposes. However I > have suddenly started receiving emails, supposedly from myself. I know > that I have not sent any such mails for a long time. > > I do get quite a lot of rubbish mails, of course, don't we all. But > this is something new. When I mentioned it to my wife she said that she > has also been getting emails, supposedly from herself. > > So I am just wondering, is this really something new, or is it just that > we have never been the target before? Spam tends to follow trends and "fashions". Both in terms of content and methods. At least partly because there arn't that many spammers. If something is found to be an effective way to bypass spam filtering they'll all want to take advantage of that "window".
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