Sign up here. My contacts are receiving spam from me that I didn't send While no one else can sign up for the same email address that you use, there are ways people can gain access to your account or send emails that look like they're coming from you. Someone accessed your account If your Yahoo account is compromised, someone has either learned your password or has hacked into your account to send messages from your email address.
Was this article helpful? Yes No. I asked them but of course, they ignore my request. What am I entitled to do and what can I do besides deleting my account and changing provider? Can I legally attempt an action for false accusation? I have checked with various up to date anti virus, anti malware programs to find spam-sending botnet, but none have been found.
Also, my email provider never answered to me when I asked for a log of all activities on my account since 15 days to check if there was any suspicious activity of course, I am not the NSA, so they ignore my request My question is: How do you find out if you are victim of hacking or spam-sending botnet on your email account.
And how technically can you find out, find the IP of the person using your email or the program doing so? Trying to find out about that, I suddenly ended up on a website stating me that my IP was starting by While, as you probably see it now, it is not at all this kind of address. Is it related to my issue with emails and does that mean I am victim of some hacker accessing my PC? I keep a couple of my own email addresses in my Contacts list. If my computer gets hacked, I would get a copy of any emails sent out.
HTML emails do not show up as opened when reviewed in that way. Or are they spammers. If they are spammers they must be trying to sell something. And would have to be using a return address for people to order from. Bottom line is that spammers make a lot of money, or if their intent is to destroy — they can easily satisfy that. And stuff comes from countries all over the world that may or may not have a similar legal system as yours, or even the resources to do anything about it. So bottom line is that it becomes our responsibility to protect ourselves.
Several times in the past 5 years I have received a bunch of returned emails within a couple of days. I now think I know that means that some crook has figured out my email password and is using my email account.
Some of the addresses he sends to, using my email address, have been closed so the email is returned to me. I immediately go to my email account and change my email password.
That stops all returned mail. The email provider has gotten more pro-active too and requires that I sign on with my password fairly often. I think someone has set up forwarding email addresses from my phone and i dont recieve my email to change password and someone has recently changed i dont know how to stop this its as if i have no control and someone has linked all my info plesase help been going on for some time i think they have set up multiple email addresses how can i check to see ifsomething is linked to my address want to clean it up not sure why i have no control.
Its a little different to the situation you describe because emails are being sent to my contacts, not to random addresses. What do you think? As for deleting not so relevant posts, you can imagine how long a process that would be.
All of the new comments come up on a queue, so nothing is lost in the haystack of comments. Commenting on the title without reading the article is the norm on the Web nowadays. Ask Leo! Is it possible that my documents are being viewed remotely or that I have some kind of Trojan Horse on my system that is monitoring my keystrokes? A young college kid that I know needs some help. Her email was hacked as was her facebook account and malicious and untrue emails were sent in her name.
She was reapplying for a job at a camp that she had this summer and the hacker harassed the camp for the past 2 months as well as any other jobs that she has applied for via email. She is in London, camp is in US. She changed her email and again, the harasser seemed to find this out as well. She will not be able to return unless this person is identified because there is too much info that needs to travel via the internet for this to be accomplished. I will encourage her to contact facebook and her ISP, however, are there any other suggestions?
Does this change because it is now international? Sounds to me like the malware sent her email address to the hackers and they are now sending spam using her email address. Dear Leo, My email is also spoofed. But since I read your article, I am not going to repeat the other million questions that you already answered in your article. However, I want to thank you. Anyway, it is good to know that it is not my fault, I have nothing to do with it, and I can let it go. I just wish I could figure out how to set up a rule to delete the tens of emails I get every day, without the possibility of losing a legitimate bounce back email.
I will continue to try and figure it out. The problem is that I get so many, that I am losing sight of actual emails I need to respond to, as they are buried amidst that garbage. Thanks again for the article. Good luck to us all. I realize this is in reply to a year old comment, but what I have done is proactively created the several email addresses I know I will want on the main servers, and just occasionally use them to keep them active.
I would also suggest this for parents also to protect the name and internet-never-forgets reputation of their children, even young ones. Or especially young ones. I am having the same trouble, spam emails from myself, they are using my email address and I changed my password and security questions but they are still getting in, the question is how?
It says above there is little we can do about it, that does not help us really though does it, I am getting 15 emails a day from myself.
I found and traced the address to North America by their ip address look up, but it seems that little is done about this. I reported it to my internet provider. They are using my email to send out crap. I have now asked also in martin lewis tech site as I dont know what else to do to stop this. Otherwise I will be getting this crap every single day if I cant stop it. Hopefully you chose a secure password that is long and complex.
You are tracing the IP addresses to various different locations which proves that these emails are not actually coming from your account.
You are actually in no danger. One thing you may want to consider is routing your email through Gmail, which has an excellent spam filter and will likely prevent you from seeing these spam emails. Leo, I often tell people that spoofing is similar to someone putting an addressed envelope in a mailbox but using YOUR address as the return address. For some reason spoofing is really hard for many people to understand.
If this can be done, then it wont matter what email address the spammer uses from that particular pc. The problem with that is that IP not ISP addresses change constantly, and often spam is sent from thousands of spambots malware infected personal computers which makes it impossible to block them effectively. They also use hacked computers and spread their sending across multiple servers, compromised machines and more.
This must be intentional rather than a virus on some other machine somewhere, else why reference a bunch of different links in the body? Googling around I find a lot of people started getting these in August , first in Germany, then the UK, and now a number of other countries. Do you have any related information? If all of her contacts are getting emails that look like they are from her, then it indicates that her account was hacked and her contact list stolen.
What we can do to stop these fake emails. Those are just normal phishing spam emails. I now found a strange new email address when trying to sort this out. Today I received an email using a made-up email address with my name.
This is horrible. Is there no way to stop dregs from doing this? They actually received my email using the same address test so they are slimy and have nothing in life to keep them from being bored and harrassing people. Today I also had to organize my next cataract operation so that is distressing for me.
At nearly 69 years of age this is appalling behaviour and to think there is no policing of the email internet yet? I have installed new security software so it has also cost me as a pensioner. However, I will not give up hope and hope this person a male from USA or even France certainly not a female as he is using a female identity name Tara. I will use this character in my next book…!! Tara from Troveit in a distant place in USA who is not sure of his identity and has a crush on an old woman!
Someone I know not a friend used my email address to log into a CaringBridge website.. Is there any way to stop this non-friend? Should I close this account and open another? If all she did was use your email address at that site, you can simply ignore all emails that come from that site.
You can also mark any emails from Caring Bridge as spam and block their address. A well designed website would send a confirmation email to that address to check if it was the owner of that email address signing up. For example, Ask Leo! Just had this with a client in the Netherlands. In his case he also recently received about 20 undeliverable e-mails in Microsoft Outlook on his laptop. He never looks at it. Luckily his internet provider KPN also sent a warning message the same day. No way to guess that.
We changed his password straight away and that was the end of it. So my advice would be to check the Sent folder in your Webmail, if you have a similar provider situation. And most important, change your e-mail account password straight away.
I get an email that looks like it comes from that address. Friend hisdomain. When I make a closer observation of the address, I see one of 2 variations: Friend hisdomain. If not, I ignore it. It the same thing as a person sending snail mail and using your address as the return address.
Any receiving mail server which is configured to run SPF checks on incoming mail will be able to verify whether the sending server is authorised to send from the domain. I know what you mean. Spammers send me email all the time that looks like it is from me. Hi Leo. People in my address book are getting emails from me that are spam. As follow up, in one of the emails that was returned to me, it looks like people are receiving these emails from me from a server in Germany.
I have the IP address and looked it up. Additionally, when I look at my account, it shows no access to my account by anyone but me and my city and all the retrieval info is still mine, none of that has changed. So, although your account may be secure, it might be too late to stop the spam.
It does not mean your account was hacked. Spammers can make completely fake from addresses — both name and email address. My ex knew my facebook password he signed in my account and sent messages looking like they were from me to him and used them in custody court. We are still in court. He also was at the end of my driveway using my wifi. Is there anyway to prove it?
How can I protect myself? I believe he also entered my cloud and messages. You need to be protecting yourself by changing some passwords immediately, and also make sure your router is protected. Attachment format is automatically changed. Long story short, I have been receiving emails that look like they have come from my partner correct email address and user name and when I hit reply it will reply to his email address…..
The emails go to my junk box which is unusual because emails from him in the past have gone straight into my inbox as he is a safe contact. He has also received emails from one of my facebook friends. All the emails are implying that he is cheating with the girl in the email or that I am cheating with my friend from facebook — this is most certainly not the case even if either of us were cheating why would we send emails like that to each other clearly showing cheating convos?
Not sure if someone has it in for me etc or if hacks can get real personal?? Anyone have any advice or had something similar happen?? This article reminded me of an incident from the early days, at least 20 years ago. I received an angry call from a customer complaining about an email that came from me. We never did figure out how it was done. Has anyone heard of this email address? The link they are sending is a spam link to gain access to their financial details. How do I stop this?
I have read the article, and it has indicated that if the hacker is sending emails from my contact list and using my exact email, then my account has been compromised. However, the hacker sent an email to everyone in my contacts list but not using my email. It was a spoofed email. I deleted all of my contacts and it happened again; to all my contacts, different email address.
What can I do about this? Do you know how this scenario is possible: emails were sent and then additionally forwarded from my email account, AND my IP address, to various people, full of very derogatory information about my boss and job. Boss was ALSO included in the forward. Some of the content was from a letter I had composed in Word on my laptop. It seems to me that someone has accessed my computer by remote and done so with this specific intent.
Without actual details no one will be able to help you with this question. Like, where was it posted, from what account? Have you checked to see if the account was hacked.
Have you checked the post to see if it was another account spoofing yours? Noted the comments, yes from Street life. I need to sort this out the stress is making me ill. I wait your reply. Never had her email. How does this happen. Is it me or her that is hacked.
There is the possibility that your email is hacked. In that case change your password right away. I recommend you read this article, and also the related articles. There is nothing we can do on this end. Read and follow the advice in this article you are commenting on. How can that happen? They must have sent my contact list to their computer or somehow recorded the email addresses. He sends malicious emails about me to these contacts from his computer.
Some of the email contacts are professional email contacts and it is very embarrassing and detrimental to my work. Is there some way to stop this person sending these vile messages to my contacts? Many thanks M. Once someone has you contact list, there is nothing Google can do, even if they were willing to help. I received an email from a friend asking me to transfer money.
Once I emailed her back, I soon realized that it was not her and only the Name on the email was hers. The email was different. I stopped replying. Does the hacker now have access to my account and contacts since I responded to the email? Thank you! I have received all kinds of malware over the years and was able to eliminate it simply restoring my computer to an earlier date.
I was even able to cancel ransomeware by working around and finally getting into my control panel to restore my computer. Has worked every time for me. One thing I learned from Leo was the importance of keeping up to date backups.
Dear Sir and Madam, I have the same problem as the asker and my husband been paid the scammer,he thought it was me, and now my name and my children probably in the black list for the thing that I never done. Is there any help when I as victim or a midman tell Microsoft at they representative official office?. Tries to trick me into clicking a link which I do not do. Has he been hacked or have I?? When I initially commented I appear to have clicked on the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the exact same comment.
My work email has online website access, but not a stored contact list. Is my husband on porn and now hacked? This hackers says he has a split screen of him and could see him enjoying sites, is this just a scare tatic? I am convinced my email is being spoofed with emails being sent to someone impersonating me, causing severe stress. Without the cooperation of the receipient, how I can track info to identify the sender impersonating me?
I never sent these emails. I changed my Yahoo password but it happened again today. Thank you. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam. All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication.
I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! How can this be? Have I been hacked into? I do have full internet security avg 9, could you please let me know what action to take if any as I find this quite worrying!
I have changed my password so far, but that is all. Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! So far my spam count has not risen but … Hope this helps. Leo, I think the email account does not need to be compromised for this to happen… but correct me if I am wrong: 1st, many people still keep sending emails to loads of people in CC rather than using BCC. How do I stop them?! Thank you Sandy Reply. MSN: [email removed] Reply.
Please re-read the article you just commented on. As pointed out in the article, someone has access to your account — so change your password and all other personal information to lock the hacker out. Thanks Ken Sounds like spam, as described in the article above. Some spammers are savvy enough to remove the messages from the Sent Folder. How do I cure being hacked by the pill company? Do I need a new email account? Please read this article which discusses your recovery options for the various ways that Hotmail accounts can be lost or compromised: What are my Lost Hotmail Account and Password Recovery Options?
The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Security Center Malware 4 things to do if your email account is hacked.
How to know your email has been hacked You may get an urgent message from a friend or family member who received a suspicious email from you. When you try to log in, you may get a message that your username or password is incorrect. This could mean the hacker changed your credentials to lock you out of your own account. Your sent-messages folder looks odd. Or, the folder may be sitting empty when you never deleted your sent messages.
Strange messages appear on your social media accounts. You email account can act as a gateway into other accounts. Change your credentials. If you do still have access to your account, make these changes right away: Get a new username and password. Choose a strong password. Secure passwords or passphrases should contain at least 12 characters, including numbers, symbols and a mix of capital and lowercase letters.
Use a unique password for every account. Password managers offer an easy and secure way to create complex passwords and to keep track of your login credentials. Change your security questions.
The hacker may have gotten access to your account by guessing the answers to security questions.
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