[ale] OT: Craigslist Scam

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

It could be something like they use compromised accounts to get around craigslist/gmail spam filtering and the reply-to to ensure the response goes to an account they use.

-Scott

On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 19:22 -0400, Scott McBrien wrote:
>> No, if you reply to them, they try the Nigerian check scam on you.
> 
> What I can figure out is that since spoofing is not allowed using
> gmail's smtp server then they use the Reply-to so that I send to them
> and not the account holder.
> 
> I've tried spoofing using the smtp server and no matter what From
> address I've tried google has replaced it with the one associated with
> my account.
> 
> Why go to that trouble.  Why not just send it from the Reply-To address?
> 
> It seems fishy.  Normal computer users would not really know about
> Reply-To and how it works.
> 
> Chris
> 
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