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phising emails not traceable?

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tali122 | 15:20 Wed 26th Oct 2005 | Technology
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i am aware of these scam /phising emails- but how come the email is not traceable especially by banks and ebay? since whoever is sending the email is in theory leaving a fingerprint-do the scammers use software/programmes to hide the real email address that needs to be expertly "decoded"?
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Hi tali122, you can get programs such as 'ghostmail' for example which allow you to send mail with no address data attached to the header.
...and if you are infected with spyware, the spammers can actually use your computer to send their emails!!
Spammers use somthing called an Open Rely to send their spam. This is when an SMTP server is misconfigured and will relay mail for any domain.

The admin will be swamped with spam so the logs just go to the bin, thus untracable. Alof of spammers send from open wireless networks and corporate networks too, and then use a proxy connection. VERY hard to trace. Btw im not a spammer

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