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Comment by dwightgunning | Hacker News Reader

When you say "pretending to be me" do you mean that they spoofed your email address in the from and/or reply-to fields?

[edit: typo]

Yes, the FROM spoofs your name so that the person will believe it's being sent directly from you in most email clients, and the Reply-to goes directly to your email. These are the email headers:

    From: YOUR_NAME <team@angel.co>
    
    Reply-To: YOUR_NAME <YOUR_EMAIL@gmail.com>

They used my name in the email from and reply-to fields, and to sign my name. I've replied to my original post with the actual email.

Thanks, that spells it out. Damn, that is fairly messed up.

I had a similar experience with F6S sending emails in my name so I know how uncomfortable it feels.

This is a shame and hopefully just a one-off error.

Downvotes? Just looking for some clarification on what actually happened here. It's not exactly clear.

People probably read too much into your comment, hence the down votes. Reason would dictate from the very small amount of info provided that AngelList merely made the email out to look like it was from OP. To say they spoofed them email headers would've gotten 3x the number of up-votes.

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