Neteller Scam (important)

[2Tone]

I’m going to draw a distinction here.

I empathize w/ phishing victims. The elderly -- or any other popular that isn’t very tech savvy -- receives an official-looking email with all the right logos. They’ve heard of the dangers of identity theft, and want to do the right thing. So they click-thru and follow instructions, thinking they are protecting themselves, and end up giving away their password. These people are legitimate victims.

Now on the other hand, the tool who actually responds to a spam email that asks him to pay money for magic pills that will make his dick bigger. Of course, the fraudulent spammers deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law. But I have trouble mustering much sympathy for any of their customers, even if they do their credit card hijacked.

[bunny]

Here's another one which really confused me, since I wasn't the sender of this e-mail, but the postmaster returned it to my address?

Can anyone make any sense out of this one? (I removed my email address & added * to it, but it was sent to my address)

From : <postmaster@hotmail.com>
Sent : December 1, 2006 9:03:49 AM
To : **********@hotmail.com (my e-mail address)
Subject : Delivery Status Notification (Failure)


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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.





From: Doctor Helmut Bernhard <admin8641432@shop423431929sysshop.com>
To: <fiigmo_jimi_182@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Message 4370723
Sent: December 1, 2006 9:03:49 AM



Thanks for your READ!

Want to manage your order online?
If you need to check the status of your order or make changes, please visit our home page and click on Your Account at the top of any page.

[Talking Poker]

I don't understand the question. It's just spam. You can easily fake who spam is from.

I could very easily send you spam with a subject line of "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" and make it look like it's from hotmail... OR.... i could send spam to some bad address and make it look like it's from YOU, and then when it bounces, you'd get the bounce.

I assume there was some sort of link in the email, because if it was just text like this, well, that's kind of pointless.

[bunny]

It was for Viagra online.

This is HOTMAIL, though. is a hotmail service. (If you try to send an e-mail to an unknown or bounced address, your e-mail will be sent back to you.)

Sole reason I opened the e-mail & read it. When I saw it was spam for Viagra, I ignored it.

Question which confuses me is, if it was sent by the hotmail staff (postmaster) how could they mistaken my address with his? This type of e-mail is not the first, there have been many sent to my address in error. Makes me wonder about hotmail or their staff.

[Talking Poker]

You are missing the point. I can very easily send you an email from or from your own email address or even from if you would like me to. It won't REALLY be from those addresses, of course, but to the level that you looked to see who this was from, it will certainly look like it is.

Just like eejit's email looked like it was from Neteller and all the ebay ones look like they are from ebay. I promise you though, those sites are not trying to scam you to get your log in info - they already have it.

[Shrewd]

So.....like.....the penis enlargement products don't work?

[Talking Poker]

Nice first post.

Welcome to the forum.

[bunny]

You cannot send an e-mail from , that address is reserved for Hotmail. Either this cold medicine is confusing me or you are. I guess you'll have to show me.

[Talking Poker]

Give me your email address and I'll send you an email from anyone you want, including that address if you like.