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 EDTTo: <XXX>Subject: Fwd: news siteReply-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
its (cyber) war out there
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:56 (twelve years ago)
― 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
#ura90skidif
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:10 (twelve years ago)
― ✌_✌ (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)