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A question about timestamps in Yahoo Mail...?

I receive a spam message today which I was just going to ignore and delete, but I noticed that Yahoo Mail recorded it as being received on 1st July 2006. How can that be? Before anyone asks, it can't be a message I inadvertently marked as unread, as I created the email account in 2009.

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  • 10 years ago
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    It's a trick the spammers use to get you to open it. They think you will think you forgot one, no matter when you opened the account, they don't know that.

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