Another kooky spam email with a twist.

[usonian]

2. Quick reply. Maybe more later, or others can chime in.

Yes, mac mail app stopped bouncing. A major loss, IMO.

It's all too easy to forge what LOOKS like a sender's address.

As I mentioned, saving the message as an "eml" file to read with a text-only editor, or dropping into one, is safe. I was an email "guru". Thank goodness I retired when I did, because email got vastly more complex.

Proton mail works with their app (and maybe the web) but I am pretty sure, only for proton email addresses.

You can look into other mail clients. I used Thunderbird in the past, and have toyed with switching. It accesses all the usual accounts (comcast, apple, others ... ) via IMAP.

Detective work will turn up info on the sender. How much? I don't know. But in my case, the sender used outlook, so a complaint could be sent to Microsoft -- and good luck with that! -- saying that such and such a user is impersonating your email address.

I don't know the ins and outs of all these laws, but I think it's serious stuff, almost equal to, or equal to, CFAA computer fraud. And in my past experiences with sysadmin and such, you can contact the local FBI office. They step into computer fraud cases. You're paying them anyway with your tax dollars.

But the first step might be to open that email in a text editor and try to find the sender's ISP, and go yell at them, FWIW.