What is a "phone home"? -----Original Message----- From: Woody Woodworth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 5:09 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address The spoofing was experimenatal and restricted to a few times years ago to someone I knew well (my brothers), and only for something both harmless and rediculous but slightly plausible. By the way, there is a free trial program that permits one to track receipt of e-mails, how many times and when an e-mail is opened, the general location of the recipient, and more. Further, one can pull a "Mission Impossible" feat of deleting a sent e-mail so many seconds after the recipient opens the e-mail. (How many remember the original "Mission Impossible" TV show?) I pulled that trick on my brothers but forgot and left the "self delete" feature "On" when sent to someone else. Fortunately, they thought their "disappearing e-mail" was funny. Further, forwards can be loaded with "phone homes" and sly tricks. I peeked underneath one forward with unusually beautiful pictures, and the HTML was loaded with "phone homes" to a foreign country. I cleaned out all of the suspicious HTML and started fresh before I forwarded the pictures on. Woody -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Using my e-mail address It is--but it is also illegal and while they don't seem to catch those who are out to harm us--they may well catch you. <g> I'd not do it were I you. Joan ============= In a message dated 8/8/2008 3:26:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: So it's pretty easy to spoof e-mail addresses. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message