I sometimes receive spam Hotmails from myself, which I can’t block because you can’t block your own email address. How does that work and how can I stop it?

Dodgy SMTP servers let you send emails from any email address. So if may have come from the email server myspam.com but it will be masquerading as an email address of globalti@hotmail.com. I’d have thought hotmail would have weeded it out TBH. I still use hotmail as my main email address but I get all emails forwarded to gmail. GMail spam filtering does seem to be better than hotmail’s.

What he said. ^^ Email addresses are easy to fake.

Might be worth a Malwarebytes scan just to be on the safe side, also.

If you look at the headers in the email you can see where it was really sent from. The “sent” email address means nothing – an ordinary email program like Thunderbird allows you to set any address.

Hmmmm… I can’t find the originating email address, either by hovering over my own fake address or by clicking “reply”.

I have this issue too, and can not stop it 🙁

I have this issue too, and can not stop it

It’s not you with the issue, it’s someone with you in their email address book who has the issue and is spamming their contact list with your details.

How about blocking ones with < & > at either end? Seem to be getting a fair few like that these days 👿

I can’t find the originating email address, either by hovering over my own fake address or by clicking “reply”

The detailed headers are usually hidden; right click the message in your Inbox and select “View message source” – that should open in a new window. Select all the stuff at the top that you can’t usually see, copy it using Ctrl+C and paste it here. Somebody will interpret it for you!

OK. Is this it?

Received: from AM5P192MB0228.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM (10.175.13.143) by
DB6P192MB0230.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM (10.171.114.141) with Microsoft SMTP
Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384) id
15.1.789.14 via Mailbox Transport; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:50:31 +0000
Received: from DB6P192CA0004.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM (10.171.111.14) by
AM5P192MB0228.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM (10.175.13.143) with Microsoft SMTP
Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384) id
15.1.789.14; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:50:31 +0000
Received: from VE1EUR03FT025.eop-EUR03.prod.protection.outlook.com
(2a01:111:f400:7e09::202) by DB6P192CA0004.outlook.office365.com
(2603:10a6:4:b8::14) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,
cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384) id 15.1.789.14 via
Frontend Transport; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:50:31 +0000
Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is 35.164.138.25)
smtp.mailfrom=ip-172-31-7-250.us-west-2.compute.internal; hotmail.com;
dkim=none (message not signed) header.d=none;hotmail.com; dmarc=fail
action=none header.from=hotmail.com;
Received-SPF: None (protection.outlook.com:
ip-172-31-7-250.us-west-2.compute.internal does not designate permitted
sender hosts)
Received: from SNT004-MC1F35.hotmail.com (10.152.18.52) by
VE1EUR03FT025.mail.protection.outlook.com (10.152.18.74) with Microsoft SMTP
Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384) id
15.1.771.7 via Frontend Transport; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:50:28 +0000
X-IncomingTopHeaderMarker: OriginalChecksum:D850CA48ED3F5DA019342B2D54848C0DFFBDC84458317C050AF6D2BDC4499003;UpperCasedChecksum:21DF68FF7D539381BA60A7B48A7DCE48E5F9FC8AC339A49F8144EA2B77DB3E5D;SizeAsReceived:841;Count:12
Received: from ip-172-31-7-250.us-west-2.compute.internal ([35.164.138.25]) by SNT004-MC1F35.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23143);
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 22:50:26 -0800
Received: by ip-172-31-7-250.us-west-2.compute.internal (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 8126750F92; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:03:23 +0000 (UTC)