Computer geek question: does anyone know why these emails come ?

[steve2470]

Scroll down, please. As you can see, there is NO text, no subject line and I deliberately deleted, for my own privacy, all traces of my email address or email domain. Why do I keep getting this kind of email ?




X-my email domain-Received: 3434a61b1d6005a8761dd64e8694d32a92e5ba78
Delivered-To: (MY EMAIL ADDRESS which I deleted)
Received: by 10.36.221.61 with SMTP id t61cs16049nzg;
Thu, 4 Aug 2005 03:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.38.89.8 with SMTP id m8mr766255rnb;
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from pcp08515198pcs.ivylnd01.pa.comcast.net (pcp08515198pcs.ivylnd01.pa.comcast.net <68.80.197.26>)
by mx.(my email domain) with SMTP id a2si1529295rnf.2005.08.04.03.21.27;
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (my email domain: 68.80.197.26 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of [e-mail])
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <[e-mail] email domain>
X-Message-Info: AOKRtcXW682gggA9LPFatDJ35UXWauS67P7P7gz434VNT
Received: (from [e-mail])
by jbx0-seminary702.owt07kfc.yahoo.com (5.62.40/8.08.76) id e3PE931eb783200;
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:13:38 +0600 GMT
X-Authentication-Warning: l4<2[br />

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Have you checked your computer for spyware/virii?

[steve2470]

2. yes i'm clean nt

[ixion]

3. testing to see if your email is valid

You can see from the return path that it's not from yahoo but from comcast where th message orginated.

Spammers use this to see if the email address is still valid. If the email doesn't get kicked back, they know they have a valid address.

That's my take on it.

[steve2470]

4. ahhhhh that makes sense nt

[dweller]

5. if you can set filters in your account

you could block all addresses in the return-path, or some similar distinguishing marker.

dp

[AirAmFan]

6. In 15 minutes, spammers and automated worms can scan all IP addresses

in the world likely to have working email service ports. Your email address probably just came up randomly. But it's worth money to a spammer if it has been "verified".

Comcast is notorious as an ISP that cares only about money and not at all about the fact that its domains have been the most common source of trillions of spam messages.