topic Re: A spam oddity in Email

A spam oddity

Billx — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:42:02 GMT

Spams/Junk incoming emails have substantially decreased.

I received my last one on 17-03-2025

However, I have just received one today, which is a real puzzle.

It has the following main headers:

From: Voicemail <abcdefghi.jklmno@talktalk.net>

To: "voice@talktalk.net" <voice@talktalk.net>

Subject: New Call Waiting

abcdefghi.jklmno@talktalk.net, represents the form of the sender's email address

The other 2 headers are, as they were received.

Now, voice@talktalk.net is NOT one of my TalkTalk email addresses.

And none of my TalkTalk email addresses appear anywhere in the header section of the email.

How did it get to my Spam folder?

And does anyone know who voice@talktalk.net is? That is a TalkTalk customer address.

Bill

Re: A spam oddity

Billx — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:12:29 GMT

I am really bothered with this.

The email I referred to above is addressed to voice@talktalk.net.

As I said, it's not me.

I was wondering, whether it would be a good idea, to forward it to its rightful owner.

Any ideas?

Bill

Re: A spam oddity

fr8ys — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:28:05 GMT

Is this email # 2001 in your spam receipts or is the content legitimate

If it's a legitimate email, then wait for support staff to give advice.

If the contents are clearly spam then the chances are it got through spam filters somehow and probably received by a number of people.

I suspect you have previously received spam where the To address is not yours. I know I have.

The sender, to me, appears clearly to be a spam address, but if not it's a compromised address.

I wouldn't stress over it.

Re: A spam oddity

fr8ys — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:11:33 GMT

@Billx

Found this.

It's a scam

https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Email/voice-mail-scam/td-p/2970621

Re: A spam oddity

Billx — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:38:26 GMT

Thanks, @fr8ys

No, it doesn't seem to be legitimate.

I've hardly received an email where the 'To: ' address is not mine. Maybe I have never received one of those.

I have received one or two with complete absence of the 'To: ', but in that case, one of my email addresses was present, within an alternative header above the 'To: ' usual position, but unrelated to 'To: '

I think I'll probably put it in the bin, and forget about the issue.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot. What is email # 2001?

Thanks again @fr8ys

Bill

Re: A spam oddity

ferguson — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:58:32 GMT

Re: A spam oddity

Billx — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:01:06 GMT

I noticed your spam report message, only after I sent my reply, @fr8ys

Re: A spam oddity

Billx — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:17:48 GMT

Ah, so, 'email # 2001' is 2001: A Space Odyssey, also related to Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

That makes complete sense.

And, of course, A Spam Oddity is A Space Odyssey.

Bill

Re: A spam oddity

fr8ys — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:12:36 GMT

I just couldn't resist with a title like that.

It was easier to work in 2001 than Major Tom.

Re: A spam oddity

Billx — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:01:24 GMT

Ha Ha Ha