[SpamCop-List] Re: Why am I getting these?

[Robert Slade]

Chris wrote:
> spam posted in .spam
> 
> My email address is *****@cox.net and my IP starts with 68.
> 
> I haven't a clue why I've been getting these bounce messages.
> 
> My email address isn't in the return address or anywhere in the header 
> and my IP or my ISP's IP isn't anywhere in the header.  Yet the spam 
> bounces are coming to me seemingly from the mail server rejecting the spam.
> 
> The IP recorded from my ISP's mail server and the mail server "bouncing" 
> the spam is indeed from myexcel.com so I guess they are legitimate 
> bounces but I haven't a clue why they are being returned to me as my 
> email address or even one that is close to being mine isn't anywhere in 
> the header of the included bounce in either the from or reply to.
> 
> I had gotten some earlier today also from a different mail server and it 
> was the same deal, seemed to be a bounce from a legitimate mail server 
> but my email address wasn't to be found in the included "original" message.
> 
> CKH
> 

They may have been sent as a BCC. Most mail clients appear to strip off 
the BCC when they get the mail. My mail Server - Mercury also does the this.

It maybe that the bouncing server is copying the bounce message to all 
the addresses ie the from and BCC addresses.

Rob