My Gmail account has also been hit by these dictionary attacks in the last month. However, if you look at the "original" with headers and all, you'll find most, if not all, are being sent to addresses other than your own. It seems to me if Gmail recieves a bogus email, it just finds the address closest to it, and sends the email to them. I might be wrong of course, but from what I can see, that's what is happening to me.
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My Gmail account has also been hit by these dictionary attacks in the last month. However, if you look at the "original" with headers and all, you'll find most, if not all, are being sent to addresses other than your own. It seems to me if Gmail recieves a bogus email, it just finds the address closest to it, and sends the email to them. I might be wrong of course, but from what I can see, that's what is happening to me.
Actually I was married in my mid-20's to a hot girl. And I'm a geek. It can be done.