Very strange

Hi

When I was with Plusnet my email address was

my_name@my_domain.plus.com

I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
account which isn't a Plusnet one.

Surely this isn't a coincidence

My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the email
contains nothing.

Any ideas what this is?

"Uncle Nobby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
>
> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
>
> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
>
> Surely this isn't a coincidence
>
> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the email
> contains nothing.
>
> Any ideas what this is?
You probably have a virus or worm on your PC.
It's using your address book, check the sent items box. When you leave the
ISP they cancel your account, so it wasn't from them.

Uncle Nobby wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
>
> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
>
> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
>
> Surely this isn't a coincidence
>
> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the email
> contains nothing.
>
> Any ideas what this is?

Well... for starters your email account with Plusnet almost certainly is still
active.

The mail you received will almost certainly simply have forged headers though
and is *very* unlikely to have actually come from Plusnet's mail servers.

The same kind of thing has happened to me fwiw.

Graham

David wrote:

> When you leave the ISP they cancel your account

No. Plusnet simply downgrade the account to a free dial-up account. I also have
my old FreeUK account too.

Graham

Uncle Nobby [(E-Mail Removed)] said:
> Hi
>
> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
>
> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
>
> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
>
> Surely this isn't a coincidence
>
> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the email
> contains nothing.
>
> Any ideas what this is?
>
>

Either someone you know, who has your old addy in their address book,
has a virus that puts the address book addys in the "from" field or
someone is just using your old addy as the "from" address in their
spam/phishing.

"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Uncle Nobby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:f8sv71$1sgj$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>>
>> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
>>
>> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
>>
>> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
>> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
>> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
>>
>> Surely this isn't a coincidence
>>
>> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the
>> email contains nothing.
>>
>> Any ideas what this is?
> You probably have a virus or worm on your PC.
> It's using your address book, check the sent items box. When you leave
> the ISP they cancel your account, so it wasn't from them.

My old email address isn't in my address book

Uncle Nobby wrote:

> "David" wrote
> > "Uncle Nobby" wrote
> >>
> >> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
> >>
> >> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
> >>
> >> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
> >> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
> >> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
> >>
> >> Surely this isn't a coincidence
> >>
> >> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the
> >> email contains nothing.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what this is?
> > You probably have a virus or worm on your PC.
> > It's using your address book, check the sent items box. When you leave
> > the ISP they cancel your account, so it wasn't from them.
>
> My old email address isn't in my address book

I'll bet it's in someone else's though.

That's all it takes.

I was *very cross* when I started getting spam to my main emal addy that hadn't
had an ounce of it in years. It simply means someone I'd once emailed had poor
security.

Graham

"Uncle Nobby" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> When I was with Plusnet my email address was
>
> my_name@my_domain.plus.com
>
> I left Plusnet due to poor service but yesterday I received an email from
> myself, i.e. the above email address, on my old Plusnet account to my new
> account which isn't a Plusnet one.
>
> Surely this isn't a coincidence
>
> My security software picked it up as a phishing email eve though the email
> contains nothing.
>
> Any ideas what this is?

It is spoofing in a Spam message. Pretty alarming the first time you
receive what appears to be a message from yourself offering fix you up with
drugs, young girls, pirate software etc.

Try not to respond!