I use Gmail and find it's very rare to get a spam message through. However I find when I do get a spam message, sometimes the "To:" address is not even my email address:
from Sloane Crawford [email protected]
reply-to [email protected]
to [email protected]
date 18 May 2011 20:52
subject Hello sweety. I wanna something new! : 1305748794
Signed by yahoo.com
How did something without my email address in the "To:" field get into my inbox?
For comedy value this is the message:
Hello, I have long hair and fine body. Me want to meet you ... I love Usher and strip, I like to communicate via web camera ... & erotic games ... I wanna show myself and communicate with you via video. Wanna get to know each other better - contact me via e-mail, pls.
To:email header has very little to do with who receives the email. TO save this question, ask about the relation between email headers and actual recipients in general instead. By the way, we all get our share of spam (or are glad we don't), so there's absolutely no comedy value to this one ;-)