Sure enough a couple of day later I received an email that was listed as coming from my Mom. The name in the sender address was the same name as my mom.
that surely makes one wonder just WHO is intercepting this mail?
is the gov selling this info?
what still to this day boggles my mind is that spammers can make an address look like it came from somewhere else.
send a man to the moon … well outerspace anyway … yet we can’t make sure an email shows the proper address from the proper sender without having to go thru the cloak and dagger routine.
It tells me that this is obviously NOT an issue that is a concern to the powers that be. If it was .. I think it would be one of the easier things to solve.
anytime a scam type situation arises ….. it should be a red flag easily spotted by email and then at the very least red flagged as not being sent from the original sender. maybe thats simplistic but I think it could be done nevertheless.
I mean how hard can it be? the sent from stays the same. no exceptions. the address sent to stays the same. no exceptions. how tough can it be?