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in my Gmail, occasionally I receive spam from my own email address, like:
from: me@gmail.com
to: me@gmail.com
I am logged in to "Thunderbird" and "Chrome" on my PC, and a "Gmail" app on my Android.
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in my Gmail, occasionally I receive spam from my own email address, like:
from: me@gmail.com
to: me@gmail.com
I am logged in to "Thunderbird" and "Chrome" on my PC, and a "Gmail" app on my Android.
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The "From:" email address is not reliable and is easily spoofed. See my answer to a similar question I received an email that appeared to be from my own mail-address
– DavidPostill – 2015-11-28T18:55:00.630https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing – g2mk – 2015-11-28T18:56:07.833
http://www.shortinfosec.net/2008/06/example-smtp-message-spoofing.html – DavidPostill – 2015-11-28T18:56:33.280
2its no different than sending a snail mail and writing a different originating address on the envelope. – Keltari – 2015-11-28T19:42:11.707