Strange email from CoalaWeb?
Written by Steven Palmer Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Quote from Google
When you send a letter through the post, you generally write a return address on the envelope so the recipient can identify the sender, and so the post office can return the mail to the sender in the event of a problem. But nothing prevents you from writing a different return address than your own; in fact, someone else could send a letter and put your return address on the envelope.
Email works the same way. When a server sends an email message, it specifies the sender, but this sender field can be forged. If there is a problem with delivery and someone forged your address on the message, then the message will be returned to you, even if you weren't the actual sender.
Email Example
These emails appear to be sent with the subject Part 1, Part 2 etc. with an accompanying compressed attachment similar to this:
Not from CoalaWeb
The short answer is I'm not the sender of these spam emails and I do not have your name on a list.
What can you do?
You can help stop these spammers by sending the full headers of these unlawful messages to the Federal Trade Commission at .
Example email for the FTC
Email subject: I was sent this spoofed email
To whom it may concern,
This email has been sent with a spoofed return email address. The IP address used has no affiliation with the email address or the domain coalaweb.com.
I have attached the full header of the message to provided more information.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME
Steven Palmer