Someone using my email adress?

[DTBA]

I just got two emails from [email protected]

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for <[email protected]>; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:25:40 +0200
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:25:29 -0500
Subject: Fwd: blog for Deborah
From: Dana Morales <MYEMAIl.co.za> (EXPLAIN THIS)
To: [email protected]
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Hello Deborah. How are you? Good blog http://swisssforex.com/im/

Some how Dana Morales used my email address to send it out but I have not clue how? no one has my details, also nothing on my outlook sent items . I was not connected to the internet at that time

 

[ITCynic]

Your email address was faked by the sender usually a spammer.
Usually it does not originate from your computer.

Unfortunately this is how your email address can be blacklisted for spamming.

It would not hurt to check your computer for Malware/Spyware either.

 

[Venomous]

log into gmail on your pc/laptop

look bottom right. in there you can view your connectivity log...

 

[Fulcrum29]

Your email address was faked by the sender usually a spammer.
Usually it does not originate from your computer.

Unfortunately this is how your email address can be blacklisted for spamming.

It would not hurt to check your computer for Malware/Spyware either.

I just got two emails from [email protected]


Some how Dana Morales used my email address to send it out but I have not clue how? no one has my details, also nothing on my outlook sent items . I was not connected to the internet at that time

Yep, there is a huge rise in this, mechanisms to prevent this is to implement SPF and DMARC policies, then you can go hard core with blacklisting and whitelisting (which limits communication to a extend). Our domain was blacklisted like this in the Netherlands, quickly corrected this issue though and promptly integrated policies to protect us outside SA.

 

[DTBA]

Your email address was faked by the sender usually a spammer.
Usually it does not originate from your computer.

Unfortunately this is how your email address can be blacklisted for spamming.

It would not hurt to check your computer for Malware/Spyware either.

Nothing on my side double checked sigh this is bad

 

[GreGorGy]

From address is meaningless - that can be faked with a simple telnet session.

 

[mercurial]

From address is meaningless - that can be faked with a simple telnet session.

Came here to say this...

 

[DTBA]

From address is meaningless - that can be faked with a simple telnet session.

Had to google this

Thanks guys sigh sucks

 

[grim]

It's a NDR backscatter attack, quite common these days and bloody annoying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)

 

[Arthur]

Thanks, grim. Just learned something new.

 

[PlatinumGran]

Hi, I recently had a similar thing happen. It was caused by a "dropper" trojan which my antivirus program hadn't detected. Only found it after installing Malwarebytes - found 3 trojans in the first scan. Can highly recommend that you try it. Great for detecting malware that other software doesn't find. Good luck!

 

[GreGorGy]

Hi, I recently had a similar thing happen. It was caused by a "dropper" trojan which my antivirus program hadn't detected. Only found it after installing Malwarebytes - found 3 trojans in the first scan. Can highly recommend that you try it. Great for detecting malware that other software doesn't find. Good luck!

Great for detecting malware that users installed as browser add-ons / toolbars as well. ADW and Hitman too.