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ManiacJoe

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4. To see where the spam comes from,

Reply to Staph (Original post)

Thu Jul 29, 2021, 08:09 PM

Jul 2021

you need to look at the email headers that by default do not get shown to you.
The "from" field is completely meaningless and always spoofed.

To see where the spam really came from read the "Received: from" lines from the bottom up.

If the email body is really using Google servers to host the spammy websites, definitely alert Google.

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Need some help with spam! [View all] Staph Jul 2021 OP

I get 20-30 per day. padfun Jul 2021 #1

Thanks, Padfun! Staph Jul 2021 #2

Yeah they're real tricky padfun Jul 2021 #3

To see where the spam comes from, ManiacJoe Jul 2021 #4