Mediocrity Pays Tribute

I just received an email message TO me, purportedly FROM me, which it is not. The FROM address is spoofed, apparantly because some competitor is worried.

I'm polishing my fingernails over it, of course, but I am also pursuing action against them right now.

So, if you receive an email message that says it was from me, I don't think you should open it. I didn't, because Windows warned me of active content. But here is the header information.

X-EMS: wait 10s
X-EMS: wait 20s
X-POP3-Rcpt: kathy@operationdoubles.com SPOOFED
Received: from pool-141-158-213-238.alt.east.verizon.net (pool-141-158-213-238.alt.east.verizon.net [141.158.213.238]) by host2.secureserver15.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with SMTP id l95D4qm7005284 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:04:53 -0400
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:04:52 -0400
X-Originating-IP: [14.89.61.08]
X-eid: 7.0.Cq.2I3.1tH7t9.XoCJRF..P..1fAm.YGobPOE0
X-pid: 061240
Message-ID: <81926265572.9429260428851@delivery.net>
Received: (qmail 3370 by uid 518); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:04:54 -0500
Message-Id: <20071005040454.3372.qmail@pool-141-158-213-238.alt.east.verizon.net>
To:
Subject: Check out what's new
From:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is an HTML message that does not contain a plain text body.

The originating IP address is...

OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US

NetRange: 14.0.0.0 - 14.255.255.255
CIDR: 14.0.0.0/8
NetName: PDN
NetHandle: NET-14-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: IANA Special Use
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-10-14

OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org

OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-10-04 19:10

The subject of the message is "Check out what's new". That can change in spammer's dumps on the Internet from recipient to recipient though.

In any case, I sent no such message. I never do. I reply to personal emails that ask me a question, and I send out a newsletter to those who sign up for it, once a month, period.