I don't think this would really fit into any of the support areas here... but still, help, lol

I woke up this morning with about 5 msgs in my Hotmail acct.'s junk mail folder, almost deleted them b/c i was still half way asleep, but i looked at them and they all read something like this:

I started looking through the attachments, and they were all sent to different people, but had the same body:

I was like what the hell?? So I looked through the message headers, and for the message that originally left my acct, the header was this:

I didn't think it was possible to spoof an address over HTTP mail like Hotmail. I've changed my pass, scanned my system with 2 AV programs, scanned it with Ad-Aware, and they all came up empty, but I'm still getting them. Anybody have any ideas? I know at least 10 so far have bounced, who knows how many more were sucessfully sent, and sooner rather than later I'll be over my sent messages quota @ hotmail and have my addy blacklisted as a spammers address...... :unsure: :(

Adam, it seems the spammers for whatever reason are using your email addy as a return address in the email they sent. It doesnt mean they hacked your account - they simply set their spamming software to have your hotmail account as its 'from' address. Email is not secure and anyone can send spoofed messages. The IP address of the SMTP server it was sent from will be the spammers and not hotmails.

Obviously this means undelivered mail will be returned to your addy, and there is not much you can do about it. :(

!@#$%$@##@!@#$ Spammers :angry:

Just be glad you were not running a mail server that was used for a relay :o

:lol:

/JD

My girlfriend had this happen to her at Earhlink. You remember all their commercials about how they are 100 percent against spam, bla, bla, bla? Well, when she called them and explained what was happening (she was getting some NASTY mail from ppl that had been spammed), EL said that they could do nothing. They offered her a new address, which she took, but they forwarded her old e-mail to her new as one of the benifits of "moving" within their system!
So it basically solved nothing, she dropped them and went with someone else, and swore never to use them again.

Any way, the point of that was to say I know what you're going through. :(

Indy

I have had and do have this happen with my Yahoo accounts. :(

I've had it happen to me too, Seph; all you can do at this time is to block those emails, or, set your Hotmail acct. to only "allow" certain email address's in...

it eliminates some mail u might want to come through, but at least you don't get bombarded with all that kinda s*it..


wase 4711

I just receive a message with Outllook Express and the sender is ME :angry:

Is it possible that a member of this forum use our mail adress ?

I have this email for about just two months

I hope this is not a member from here who is using our mail adress :blink:

Have not had this happen to me, yet.

You would think that you could just sign all your e-mail using a key that the server reads and if the key is missing than the server deletes the e-mail and it never is sent. And record whatever info you want. So if someone sends a message acting like they are u and it gets sent back to you because of a bad address for example then the server checks to see if your key is included with the original e-mail and if not then it knows it was not you who tried to send the message to the e-mail address that does not exist.

Log all ip address, host names, etc and send it to the authorities. Does not seem that hard to me.

Also have all the e-mails, key, etc 1024 bit or stronger encrypted. :)

Might just be pretty expensive.

Would be nice. Exscpeial if all e-mail has to be signed. Thats how it should be. Make a law saying that all e-mail must be encrpted and ditigal signed so that you can 100% trace everything.

If your digital key is fake then simply your e-mail is never sent. That should stop a lot of spamers.

And not only that they have to have your digital key to be able to send you an e-mail. If u want it that way. Fine with me. No spam ever. Sure its possiable, just money and time.

cya,
Will