Greetings.
This is my first post in this community.
I have started to receive a new form of spam.
Normally, when something identifiable as spam gets into the inbox, one can block the sender, and the message gets transferred to deleted items. Repeats then don't get to the inbox.
I am now getting spam where the attempt to block the sender is greeted by the message "The email address or domain name you entered is not valid". No further action is taken by outlook or Norton, and the message remains in the inbox.
Here is the internet header from one of the messages:
Return-Path: <>
Delivered-To: gxxxxx_xxxx@bxxxxxxxr.co.uk
Received: from md18.tb.ukmail.iss.local ([212.54.59.70])
by mc13.tb.ukmail.iss.local (Dovecot) with LMTP id hNvwJd3n91fDVgAA1nWJCQ
for <gxxxxxx_xxxxx@bxxxxxxr.co.uk>; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:22:48 +0200
Received: from mx3.mnd.ukmail.iss.as9143.net ([212.54.59.70])
by md18.tb.ukmail.iss.local (Dovecot) with LMTP id i+XUFrOYaVaqQAAA2WxTQg
; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:22:48 +0200
Received: from reveal-wold.gangmachine.com ([66.235.214.51])
by mx3.mnd.ukmail.iss.as9143.net with bizsmtp
id siNi1t00M176ViS01iNjdr; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:22:48 +0200
X-SourceIP: 66.235.214.51
X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Oa/aNVbY c=1 sm=1 tr=0
a=nsdxcM8QjX6r9PCgoRVIIQ==:117 a=nsdxcM8QjX6r9PCgoRVIIQ==:17
a=MKtGQD3n3ToA:10 a=CH0kA5CcgfcA:10 a=dik7HMQjudEA:10 a=ZZnuYtJkoWoA:10
a=TK-VArQ_AAAA:8 a=rs7sg8f6MFUNZxoblYEA:9 a=YPEEThNLWM2r6TUkfcqc:22
Received: from reveal-wold.gangmachine.com (localhost 66.235.214.51) by mtaig-aam03.mx.aol.com (Internet Inbound) with ESMTP id 8112656990527 for <>; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:58:13 CEST
Received: from (127.0.0.1) by reveal-wold.gangmachine.com id chnr67kkk098 for <>; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:58:13 CEST (envelope-from <yyqfgajit@flushingbank.com>)
Received: from reveal-wold.gangmachine.com id zwrpyysvwlsm for <>; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:58:13 CEST (envelope-from <noreply@flushingbank.com>)
From: "Thomson Confirmation" <gxxxxx_xxxxx@bxxxxxxxr.co.uk>
Reply-to: "25k93"<%996633442AH%@=?UTF-8?B?Z29vLmds?=>
Sender: "=?US-ASCII?Q?graham?="?<graham@=?UTF-8?B?c2VlZC5jb20=?=><"graham">
To: gxxxx_xxxxx@bxxxxxr.co.uk
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:58:13 CEST
Subject:Your eMail address,was -exclusively- selected By Thomson's Team...
Content-Type: text/html;
As you can see, the Sender is not formatted normally (<ABC@XYZ.com or.co.uk>).
Other links on the chain from the sender to me are bona fide organisations who have nothing to do with me. I suspect email spoofing here.
Has anyone come across this before, or does anyone have a suggestion how I can block these messages?
By the way, Norton AnitSpam Outlook Plugin is loaded as a COM Add-in, but does not seem to do very much.
Thanks