The problem with spoofing is how is this script kiddie gaining access to new client email addresses ones that for example didnt exist before?
As I've said it seems like new emails come in some with entirely new clients and new email addresses so if some script kiddie is out there spoofing those email addresses with my return address then how is he doing it with new emails that arrive? You cant simply tell me that hes spoofing my return address to every other address out there otherwise I'd be getting emails from random people that I dont even have on my address book.
It sounds like what ever is doing this either exists at Comcasts gateway thus sitting between me and the client and sending random emails with that message to which it would affect a lot of people. Another possibility is it really exists on this Mac (such as a daemon) and just reads over the email dbase and randomly sends an email to what ever new comes in thus it has access to my contacts.
I remember being on AIM with IM+ and push emails enabled on the iPhone only to login and come back to my friend asking me what "**** you! i'm crazy!" was. That was the VERY first time I noticed it, changed all my passwords on emails/sites/etc.
You have correctly stated the nonexistent value of such a measure, but still you are thinking of trying it?
I didn't completely reread this thread, but IIRC, nobody suggested that the problem has anything to do with OSX, and everything to do with spoofed e-mail addresses, about which you can do absolutely nothing except abandon that e-mail address and use a different one.
My point is this that it seems to be just me since I dont hear anyone else by google searching the phrase complaining about it. It seems to "know" my contacts and the newest emails almost always get a random rogue email. So if I have a new client that emails me then they get one its always the newest email in the box as one of my older partners didnt receive it but did when he just emailed me a week or two ago.
If it is some sort of spoofing via human then I'm wondering how its getting new email addresses that are sent to me, its not like the guys spamming thousands or millions of people randomly with my return address and I'm getting random emails back from people I don't know. So then that leaves us with a spoof bot.. um ok but aren't those practically non existent on OSX and if not then what or where would I look to try and find it activity monitor? terminal command?
I do have little snitch installed and deleted all the programs on its access list hoping I'd catch some rogue program trying to access the internet but the only thing I keep seeing is access to creativepro.com by a PubSubAgent.app on port 80 when I access mail.
I dont think its a person I'm sure of it because I dont get emails from random people reply'd/forwarded to me saying what the hell.. its always the newest/last email received.
