Any advice appreciated: Bizarre email spoofing me

[Blake]

I checked my email through the web interface today to report/delete the spam before I downloaded the legitimate stuff. I was quite disturbed to find the following email among the most recent:

From: xxxx@mindspring.com
To:
Subject:
Date: Mar 5, 2005 5:43 AM
The "From" field was my own email address. The source was this weirdness:

Return-Path: <xxxx@mindspring.com>
Received: from 207.69.200.152 ([221.144.160.242])
by albert.mail.atl.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1d7wKX52n3Nl3qU0
Sat, 5 Mar 2005 05:43:32 -0500 (EST)
Delivered-To: xxxx@mindspring.com
Received: from [HELO jacksonville
From: <xxxx@mindspring.com>
Message-Id: <200503050543.1d7wKX52n3Nl3qU0@albert.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 05:43:32 -0500 (EST)
X-ELNK-AV: 0
Needless to say, I didn't send an empty email to myself manipulated to have an empty "To:" field at 5:43 this morning. I can't understand why anyone else would either. There are no (other) signs of virus infestation. What on earth gives?

[LadyShea]

I have had this happen too. My web guy said it was just coincidence, that the email spoof on the virus grabs random addresses from Outlook and mine just happened to get stuck there. Your email provider may have filtered out the actual virus attachment so it looks like an empty email.

[LadyShea]

I got one too Blake. It was sent from "bwittman@earthlink.net" to "bwittman@email.com". I do not have an Earthlink account.

Mine had an attachment.

[Blake]

Wacky! Thanks. That makes me feel a little better, that you don't even have an Earthlink account; I guess I can believe that they didn't actually send the email using my account, just slapped my address on it.