Spoofing Spam

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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"Rikki don’t lose that number
You don’t wanna call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself..."

--from the song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” by Steely Dan

It’s amazing how much multi-tasking our lives require, but have you ever received an e-mail from yourself? I’m not talking about those situations where you might have sent an e-mail or text message to a distribution group that you were a member of, nor am I thinking of those absent-minded circumstances where you perform a simple “forwarding”/”reply” action and neglect to take yourself off the list. No, I’m talking about times when you get a message sent to you that clearly has your address credentials, showing you as the sender of the message and you have no recollection of sending it. Sure, you’re busy--but you’d generally recall sending something to yourself, right?

Apparently, spammers are counting on you being too busy to be diligent about broadcast messages that want to provide you with information on prime lending rates, affordable medications and dozens of other products and services that are more harassment than marketing. Even so, you’re probably wondering just how you managed to be on both ends of this e-mail/text message phenomenon.

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