Hi Joe. I'm Mark Hewitt, Calgary UNIX Users Group sysadmin.
Some details depend on which email service you received this spam.
The common email headers can be easily forged. The only ones you can
trust are the last "Received:" header, which is written by the
receiving email server, as well as the headers created from the email
envelop ("From", "Return-Path:", "X-Original-To:", "Delivered-To:"),
also created by the receiving email server.
Everything else can be forged. Most likely explanation is your email
address was picked up in one of a number of ways and just used to fill
in a piece of spam. Not much you can do about it without involving
your email provider.
You should report it to them. Continue to use your email, as this is
just something that people have to understand when using email: you
have to be suspicious about email that doesn't completely make sense
or doesn't jive with who it comes from.
To be completely thorough, although it's not really necessary, you can
reset the password or whatever means you use to securely access that
email.
Mark Hewitt
CUUG sysadmin
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 09:20:33PM -0700, Joe S wrote:
> I got an email from my email address to my email address. It is a scam
> about money. I am supposing I need to change my email address. Is there
> also a problem with my computer. How would someone do this?
>
> Joe
>
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