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Originally Posted by Jarmusch
I was under the impression that most of these spoofed emails were sent only to the owner of the email address as a way to get his attention and make him open the email.
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Maybe there's a few like that, but nah. The reason you often will see your own address as the "from:" sender on a lot of spam is because the less-bright spammers misconfigure their spamming programs and end up putting the "to:" addresses (from their CDs full of email addresses) in the "from:" field as well. Which is silly, since you probably would know if you'd sent yourself an email advertising "V-*i -@--Gr-*a."
Plus you may get things that appear to be coming from "ineedhits" - which is a spamming service, but often the user isn't bright enough to alter the default "from:" field with his own set of fake addresses, so it becomes easy to tell it's an obvious spam ploy.