Neteller Scam (important)

[Robbie Robb]

oh man. basic SMTP manipulation 101. I remember doing this shit back in University using PINE. I used to send my friends (X-Files fans) emails from and . Ahhh the memories.

This would be a good time to point out that 99% of those spam emails you get are not being sent from the address listed. The spammers have randomly picked/generated an email address to put in as the sender info. I've had it happen to me - some spammers have used one of my domains in the past. It sucks, but meh, whatcha gonna do?

[Talking Poker]

Right, of course.

As bunny will confirm, not long after PMing me earlier today, she got an email from God. Turns out his email address is and he used a subject line of "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" even though there was no failure!!!

Oh, that wacky God.

I could send anyone an email that (at a glance) looks like it is from anyone else, with about 8 seconds of "work" (changing my name and return address) on this end. This is nothing that you haven't been able to do for years, and it's not exactly top secret technology either. It depends on your email program, but it's usually as simple as clicking on "Properties" or whatever and just changing your name and Return address. Bingo.