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hey someone just emailed me saying theyre getting spammy email from me and forwarded the email which was sent w my name but not from my account, i use an adress book i just rely on the recent addresses pop up list that comes up when you start typing so im sure how some sort of bot couldve gotten the adress i guess by just looking at my emails, not sure how to ficgure out if it got into my gmail or my iphone or maybe via like a twitter app? wtfffff

this is the email

From: {my name} <e✧✧✧@h✧✧✧.n✧>
Date: May 19, 2013 9:50:21 AM EDT
To: <XXX>
Subject: Fwd: news site
Reply-To: {my name} <wcsgha✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧>

hey, anthony. what do you think about this??? (xxx)://istanbulunsesi.org/castleancientshauncampbel/

Sent from my iPhone

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

fwiw i dont use the default 'Sent from my iPhone' tag line

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:50 (twelve years ago)

SRY SHOULD READ 'i DONT use an adress book...'

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:51 (twelve years ago)

prob one of the people you email got hacked, youre in their address book, and the bot is just spoofing the email header w/ your name?

乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:53 (twelve years ago)

yeah im wondering if thats the case, i axed on facebook and so far no one else is reporting anything

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:54 (twelve years ago)

btw i think u hacked ilx w this thread title

乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)

hack and be hacked

乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)

its (cyber) war out there

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:56 (twelve years ago)

prob one of the people you email got hacked, youre in their address book, and the bot is just spoofing the email header w/ your name?

― 乒乓, Monday, May 20, 2013 12:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a version of events that happened to me (getting emails from ppl who thought it was i who was hacked when i was totes not), but that was about ten years ago and maybe email hackery has progressed since then.

you could look at the 'recent account activity' thing linked at the v bottom of your gmail inbox and see if anything suspicious turns up there.

✌_✌ (c sharp major), Monday, 20 May 2013 13:00 (twelve years ago)

i remember back in the 90s when there were websites that spoofed email headers and you could send people emails from billga✧✧✧@micros✧✧✧.c✧✧, ah those were the days

乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)

#rememberthe90s

乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)

#ura90skidif

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:10 (twelve years ago)

you could look at the 'recent account activity' thing linked at the v bottom of your gmail inbox and see if anything suspicious turns up there.

― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Monday, May 20, 2013 9:00 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good idea thanking you, nothing weird there

lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

actually, there was an attempted hack on my gmail recently

- but google blocked the attempt as they noticed the country of origin of the access was not the usual country ..

so they locked the account, and sent me a txt to advise of the situation and how to get back into it.

quite impressive i thought.

mark e, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:19 (twelve years ago)

ya google had my back when i got hacked a month ago

flopson, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:27 (twelve years ago)


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