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Re: mysterious spam message



>The key line is the last received: from, quoted here:

No, headers that appear at the bottom of an email are forged, in an attempt
to misdirect users trying to trace it back to its source. This is a fairly
common practice among spammers.

Genuine headers only appear at the top of an email message. If Jordan wants
to find out where it really came from, he will have to look at the original
message, and set his newsreader to show full headers.

Clay