Getting spam from myself

abff

I've started getting spam messages in Portuguese from what appears to be my own email address. Any ideas how I might fix this? I don't want to block sender for obvious reasons.

It may be related to a problem I've had sending emails to Portugal (I have an apartment over there, so I tend to send a number of emails to the management company, etc.). Basically, a lot of my emails are not getting through. This seems to be related to the fact that I changed ISP, but kept my old email address. The emails are being rejected because the IP address from which they are coming is not the same as my email address.

bonzodog2

It is a fairly trivial matter for a spammer to put anything they want in the From: header.

It may be coming from an infected machine belonging to someone who has your address on their PC somewhere.

You can possibly tell where its from by looking at the headers. If you know how to find them (many mail clients don't show them all by default), you could edit out your address and anything else sensitive, and post them here, someone may help.

abff

Thanks. If I get another one I'll try what you suggest. I've deleted the previous emails.