email hijack?????

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I received the following message in my inbox. Obviously it is viagra spam, however I don't understand why or how someone can use my email as a return path. does it mean someone has hijacked my computer/email address to send out spam?

Whats going on here?

The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to keizerspoelman.nl:
<<< 550 5.1.1 User unknown

----- Original message follows -----

Return-Path: <my email>
X-XS4ALL-To: <[email protected]>
Received: from wadim-2e35j6xoh (e176096181.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.176.96.181])
by mxdrop144.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m7TKg7mT072170
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:42:10 +0200 (CEST)
(envelope-from (MY EMAIL)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:42:07 +0200 (CEST)
Content-Return: allowed
X-Mailer: devMail.Net (3.0.1854.22234-2)
Message-Id: <20080829114213.9362.qmail@wadim-2e35j6xoh>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear [email protected] 84% 0FF
From: Viagra Online <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 p=Oi2B-nX6HGUA:10 p=lwTqEOA2AAAA:8
a=fn-s9wdVTKIA:10 a=m0SdQJFvzeyQyIZWuVcA:9
a=oWJFLJ2QiJ8PRhPHmYs6SL_6qA0A:4 a=9OHTkwyHC8cA:10
X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner

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@dadpad,

No idea hun... maybe Robert or Nick can wade in here.

(hope you are feeling less flu-ey) x

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@dadpad,

Anyone can forge an email header and send an email address as anybody else. It requires no hacking and all and the email spec does not contain any sender authentication. So for example, you could setup an email account in Outlook and use somebody else's email as the return address and it will work (want an email from the president?).

Spammers now often forge headers because it helps them get through spam filters and because the bounces go to someone else, which means another person got their spam.

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@dadpad,

Didja post a "real" e-mail address where the bots can get it???

Hope not...

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@Robert Gentel,

Incidentally, while there's not much an individual user can do about it, the email providers can implement the Sender Policy Framework on their email domains to curb some of it. It would bounce the messages to some ISPs that look up the valid IPs for the email to originate from.

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@Robert Gentel,

Ok thanks Robert, (and izzie and rockhead.)

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@Rockhead,

Early on in my cyber life this may have been the case.

Not so anymore.

Yer cat looks like margo's

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