They did ask for all of your demographics, including credit card information. Toups isn't the only Hotmail customer receiving unsolicited self-addressed spam. Of course I don't click those puppies because I'm pretty sure it's a way to scan my login and password. Microsoft's free Hotmail and other free email service providers expressed no surprise at Toups' and Mang's findings. They say concealing the actual sender's email address with the recipient's address is an old-school tactic spammers use to trick people into clicking on their message.
Spammers have always put fake addresses, they never use their real addresses.
But for some reason, they try to confuse people by using the recipient' s address instead. Send it . Use this version. E-mail this to a friend. Wired Digital Inc., a Lycos Network site.