If you look at the full email headers you can usually see the ip addresses of the various servers along the route that the email has taken. When a from address is spoofed it will usually be only the name that is incorrect. Usually you can trace the ip where it is from, but it will usually not do you much good, as the machine will be part of a botnet or hacked or some poorly configured email server allowing unsecured relaying or any of many other reasons. As to your email addresses, sometimes spammers or scammers buy lists. Sometimes you may have visited a site which harvested your email address, or filled in a form. A friend or business who has your email address may have been hacked. You may have entered a competition online or at a shopping centre and given your email address. Sometimes they simply send to random names at pariicular domains. The methods are too numerous to mention, and I certainly don't know them all. "And, of course, the spammers and scammers are alwsys innovating.
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