Mail Spam?

There is an archived issue similar to this that claims to have been resolved. It's baaack . . .
Email started coming in daily with a blank "To" and a blank "From" and a blank "Subject" and a blank "Message". I copied the email to the desktop and opened with TextEdit and voila
Return-path:
Received: from smtpin131-bge351000 ([10.150.68.131])
by ms074.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26
2008; 64bit)) with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for
****@mac.com; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:30:08 -0800 (PST)
Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Received: from 249.80.114.124.broad.xa.sn.dynamic.163data.com.cn
([124.114.80.249])
by smtpin131.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec
16 2008; 32bit)) with SMTP id <[email protected]> for
****@mac.com (ORCPT ****@mac.com); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:30:08 -0800 (PST)
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==
Date-warning: Date header was inserted by smtpin131.mac.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:30:08 -0800 (PST)
Message-id: <[email protected]>
Received: from gdfva ([89.89.80.210])
by 249.80.114.124.broad.xa.sn.dynamic.163data.com.cn (8.13.4/8.13.4)
with SMTP id 200902162115028645; Mon,
16 Feb 2009 21:15:20 +0800Message-ID: <000401c99038$879ef640$595950d2@yxcdwzild9l2iygdfva>From:
"Amelia" <******@sun.com>To: <****@mac.com>Subject: Will you be my
Valentine?Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:12:05 +0800MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type:
text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1250";
reply-type=originalContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitX-Priority:
3X-MSMail-Priority: NormalX-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express
5.50.4920.2300X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300Amelia
just mailed to you a Valentine's Day Card and wrote to
you:"Will you be my Valentine?"To view your customized greeting card,
simply click on the following internet
location: http://yo.adoresongs.com/?ID=c6a517e6d6e9b112698e60cb2Best Wishes,
holidaycards.com.
I went to the URL and it's a Greeting Card site
Any idea's?
<Edited by Moderator>

It's not a good idea to post your email address, which appears at least three times in that lot, unless you like receiving spam: I've asked the moderators to remove it.
This is quite typical spam, and I'm afraid it's a fact of life. Delete and forget, never ever respond to it and I don't advise visiting any websites linked to. Check that your MobileMe Mail Preferences have junk filtering enabled: and for the Mail application you consider buying SpamSieve (though I imagine that won't help with IMAP mail if that's all you are using).

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SMTP was never really designed to authenticate mail and while you can lock down your own server there is very little you can do to prevent others generating mail (spam) in your name.
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I've received the same before as have many others which is an indication a spammer has used your email address to appear as the sending email address for a bulk spam mailing.
Spammers do not provide a valid sending or return email address which is constantly changed and some spammers use a valid email address pulled from their list of "known good" email addresses.
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If I were to forward the emails that do reach me (after being manually marked or automatically filtered as spam) to the suggested address, would that affect the "learning" process of my Apple Mail spam filter?
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Thanks, mhunter, most helpful.
The article, for those interested, is about 2/3 the way down this page:
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Mail spam filtering is too strong!
I ask here, as I don't mind delving into XML files and doing search and replace with Textwrangler if someone has an idea how to isolate what is spam and what is not. So is there a file I can edit that forces it to only consider certain keywords and e-mail addresses spam?
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This kind of problems are caused by some corruption in one or more of the files used by the junk filter. Try this first:
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I know this has been reported before, but it has become a real problem for me in the last two days and I am really getting annoyed.
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The chat was USELESS.
I have forwarded all three messages on to the "big brother spam permission" email address, and of course they do not respond, but only tell you to try an hour later to see if they "have adjusted their filters."
I understand that Verizon considers their mail system to be "free" and thus of low priority, but come on guys - this is the worst customer service I have seen lately.
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As stated in the Spam FAQ page, you will not get any response when sending the message to [email protected] for review. You attach the message that you are unable to send, and they review it. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the filter will either be updated to allow the content that was previously blocked, or it will be determined to be a legitimate block and no changes will be made.
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If you have a signature, try removing one line at a time from it and attempting to send the message again. Some signatures look like "ads" to the filters, apparently.
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Some people have suggested sending the message to [email protected] for investigation. This may work for you as well.
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer as Accepted Solution so others can see the solution to the problem.
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Mail...I like it...can't wait until Leopard is released to get easy to use HTML templates. This is not my point.
I am curious about SPAM. Is there some way that Mail can have a button...like a Junk button for instance that tells not only my system that a particular e-mail is junk BUT will go out to other Mail users and tell their system that an offending e-mail is Junk too.
There could be some sort of algorhythm/classification system so that an e-mail could have the chance to defend itself based on content. But an offending e-mail that we all tag as Junk would be automatically removed from all of our inboxes without us even seeing the **** thing.
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hhmmm...not even a comment?
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http://virtualchat.support.microsoft.com/client/default.aspx?siteid=32ECF580-B446-44E5-8B4D-25F0AFE07779&query=Support%20phone%20number
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