Spam of myself ?

[Quam256]

I am getting from what looks like Emails from myself .I have had 2 upto now and it is junk .How is this possible .?

[Callumpy]

Originally Posted by Quam256

I am getting from what looks like Emails from myself .I have had 2 upto now and it is junk .How is this possible .?

Could be a virus sending emails out, or it could be your provider just being plain daft

Do a virus scan

[RDDearing]

It's very easy for someone/something else to send "as you" without actually using your account. Most email systems will display a "reply to" address in preference to the "sender" address if one exists.

It's not necesarily an indicator that you have a virus but that someone who has you as a contact has a virus.

Some viruses not only scour address books for addresses to send to but in order to "hide" their origin, also use the address book to set a different reply to address.

[scuzz]

I get a few sometimes and just bin them - I figure that if I'm getting mails from myself then I really should.

[keithwalton]

check the 'message options' it should be able to tell you were it came from and every server it visited on the way

[DaiNasty]

Originally Posted by Quam256

I am getting from what looks like Emails from myself .I have had 2 upto now and it is junk .How is this possible .?

It's some idiot spammer who has used your email as the return address on his junk. If you've only had a few up to now then think yourself very lucky.
The last time someone used one of my domains in a spam run I got several hundred bounce/failure/rejected messages before I started filtering at the mailserver.

It's along the lines of the old 'Joe job'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

[Quam256]

I have checked the IP of the mails and they are from the other side of the world .Have run a virus and spy check but will run again.