Spam e-mails claiming to be from our company

Hi folks,

We have gotten a couple of e-mails to one of our former employees from
someone with an aol e-mail address where they are replying to a note that
says it came from our former employee, but was not sent by us. It's a form
note, and not something that we use. We are not sending these message, but I
don't know how to track down where they are coming from, nor do I know for
sure if the person sending the original back to us complaing is real either.
In his 2nd note to us he references calling the BBB on us, or having his
brother in the FBI investigate us. Any advice on how to track down what is
going on here? Our former employee's e-mail is being redirected to another
employee and they are getting the messages. I'm not sure how to figure out if
these e-mails are real or not.


Mike

What do the message headers show, e.g. the originating SMTP server
address.



On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:26:01 -0800, Mike
<> wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>We have gotten a couple of e-mails to one of our former employees from
>someone with an aol e-mail address where they are replying to a note that
>says it came from our former employee, but was not sent by us. It's a form
>note, and not something that we use. We are not sending these message, but I
>don't know how to track down where they are coming from, nor do I know for
>sure if the person sending the original back to us complaing is real either.
>In his 2nd note to us he references calling the BBB on us, or having his
>brother in the FBI investigate us. Any advice on how to track down what is
>going on here? Our former employee's e-mail is being redirected to another
>employee and they are getting the messages. I'm not sure how to figure out if
>these e-mails are real or not.
>
>
>Mike

I only got the message forwarded to me, not the original, and nothing was
displayed in the headers.
However, we figured out this was someone who had filled out an online
application service that we subscribe to, and we were able to figure out that
the e-mails were generated from it, and have now disabled it. Whew.

Thanks Jim for the heads up!

Mike


"Jim" wrote:

> What do the message headers show, e.g. the originating SMTP server
> address.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:26:01 -0800, Mike
> <> wrote:
>
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >We have gotten a couple of e-mails to one of our former employees from
> >someone with an aol e-mail address where they are replying to a note that
> >says it came from our former employee, but was not sent by us. It's a form
> >note, and not something that we use. We are not sending these message, but I
> >don't know how to track down where they are coming from, nor do I know for
> >sure if the person sending the original back to us complaing is real either.
> >In his 2nd note to us he references calling the BBB on us, or having his
> >brother in the FBI investigate us. Any advice on how to track down what is
> >going on here? Our former employee's e-mail is being redirected to another
> >employee and they are getting the messages. I'm not sure how to figure out if
> >these e-mails are real or not.
> >
> >
> >Mike
> .
>