How can I retrieve an e-mail address from spam?

Comp. Spam/Virus? I just got an email from MY Own email address..?

• I did open it because the email baffled me. I had NOT sent it to myself and I am the only one w/ access to my email. The email was spam. The email it "came from" was the same, letter by letter confirmed as my own email address.. I am baffled.. Anyone else had this happen to them? Receiving a SPAM email from...their own email address? It was a yahoo address. I have received spam sometimes w/ similar address..but the same?

• Answer:

  It's called "spoofing" Spoofing is the "forgery" of an address, to hide the identity of the sender, and is usually done by an Automatic Spamming system, that blindly and randomly, runs through addresses in sequence. It's not actually coming from or thru your account. One type that's called "Self Spamming"--(go figure)--appears to be coming "from" and going "to" the same address. Anti-spam experts say----At this time, there's nothing you can do, except DELETE them. They are a nuisance, but harmless and don't last long. Don't spam them--you'd only be spamming your own address.