Reply to a spam message and you become a spammer
Today I received an utterly abusive email from someone I don’t know. I’m not going to put the content here because it’s just too abusive.
The person is easily traceable; it’s from their own domain, it’s clear who it’s hosted by, and the mail headers are consistent with that information. Essentially, it seems that they have received a spam email where it would appear to be “from” me. I’m not going to report them though because it’s clear that this person hasn’t got the faintest idea how easy it is for spammers to fake the “from” email address in a message.
My rant really is to vent my feeling that, if you reply to a spam email where the “from” email address has been harvested off the internet and is being used fraudulently, you have become the lowest of the low - you are now a spammer yourself.
Just take a deep breath and delete any spam email without replying to it (and preferably without even bothering to read it).