Emails from myself

Sue11

Help!!!
I am getting emails from my email address but they are not in my sent box. I have, as advised on the internet, changed my password three times now (I must say my passwords are always classed as very secure) but after a few days of it being changed I again have another email. I don't open them.

How can this be happening and who can I contact.

Sue

StuC75

Likely just a cause of spoofing since they haven't been sent by you.. That's how some of the internet banking scam emails first appear to be from legitimate source... just delete and forget about...

Mr_Toad

There's nothing much you can do. They didn't actually come from your account and you password hasn't been compromised.

With a bit of know how people can put what they like in the headers to try and hide their true origin.

As StuC75 says delete and move on.

If you're interested you can read a bit about the practice;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

earthstorm

email spoofing happens, you can report the email with headers to spamcop etc, but they will still keep coming.

I am amazed at the amount of times i try and sell myself certain male pills, but not very good at selling to myself as i never buy them and with the emails to myself saying in my last trip to Las Vegas i won hundred of thousands of USD and just need to pay to have them released. strange as i have never been out of the UK. then their the bank emails to say your account has been suspended and you either to need to open an attachment or click a link to complete a form, but these are from banks i dont have an account with.

esuhl

Mr_Toad wrote: »

With a bit of know how people can put what they like in the headers to try and hide their true origin.

You don't even need a bit of "know how"! Email was designed so that you can specify anything as the sender's address. You just type whatever you want.

It's just a trick to get the email past spam filters. An email that appears to have been sent by yourself is (perhaps) less likely to be identified as spam as an email from an unrecognised address.

Mr_Toad

esuhl wrote: »

You don't even need a bit of "know how"! Email was designed so that you can specify anything as the sender's address. You just type whatever you want.

And if you ask most people they have no idea that this is the case as it's something they never need to do.

The OP is a case in point, if she had this 'bit of know how' she wouldn't have needed to ask about it.

Sue11

Thank you very much everyone I will now stop worrying.