If you have an email address, you have been spammed.
Since I am usually the one that handle trouble tickets, I get several each month about spam. Customers wonder why they are getting spam from their own email address.
Basically spammers grabbed your email address and spam you with your own email address. You can look at the source code of an email see that it’s coming from a domain outside of the US.
Imagine someone mailing you a bunch of letters through the post office, but the return address is not really theirs. They put your return address on the letters.
Of course mailing through the post office costs money and email doesn’t.
Postini does a good job at blocking spam. The default settings for Postini will allow some spam to get through. You can always login into your account and adjust the settings.
Login to Postini and click on “My Settings” in the top right.
Click “Manage Junk Filters”.
You will have a drop down for Overall Junk Filter:, the default setting is Strict. You can change it to be more aggressive.
Let me caution you about this. You may find more legitimate emails getting caught. Take a close look at your Quarantine reports.
Bert Dinkins
