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Bugsy

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[quote user="NormanH"]Sometimes people can 'pirate' an email address.

When I was with wanadoo (the old name for Orange) I received spam....from my own email address, and I know I didn't send it....
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TRhayts why you need to check the header to see where it really came from. Sometimes its just an IP address but you can trace that via Spamcop and other resources then send the email to them.

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Obviously we as 'men of the world' can laugh this sort of thing off, but I  was a member of an association which had some rather respectable French ladies in it, and when they received invitations to debauch from my email it was difficult to explain to them, as they were even less technologically aware than I am.

You have my sympathy.

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[quote user="NormanH"]... which had some rather respectable French ladies in it, and when they received invitations to debauch from my email it was difficult to explain to them ...[/quote]

Which is why it is always a good idea to have an email address independent of any ISP you might be using. With the added benefit that you don't lose it when you change service providers.

Sue

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Very true. I have 2 personal domains. One of them is on its third service provider and the other on its sixth.

The French one allows me to have a nice simple address of fred@fbloggs.fr (name changed to protect my privacy). Funnily enough it takes a bit of effort to convince people that there should not be an orange, sfr, neuf or whatever somewhere in there.

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