Email hack or spam?

DavidMartin7819

I was checking through my emails and noticed a lot of emails that look like theyre from me, i.e. they have my email address in the to and from sections, basically they have a conversation were apparently I'm either asking for sex, drugs or paying for other things. I know its not me, I'm worried someone is using my account somehow or are they just pretend to try and get you to message? How can I tell as they have my email address in the sent parts of the conversation as if ive replied? Ive now changed my password just in case but as some of these go back months and I change my password monthly I'm worried something else is going on

Slinky

Wrong part of the forum, hardly a marriage/relationships/family issue?

PeacefulWaters

Replying to certain spammy Facebook messages can contribute to this problem.

Avoid anything generic with lots of replies.

Comms69

You probably have a virus, most PCs now have access to outlook, so when you sign in it gets access to your emails

hazyjo

No, they're not from you and it's very unlikely it's been hacked. It's very common. Have a search on google for the same question. First one I found: https://askleo.com/from_spoofing_how_spammers_send_email_that_looks_like_it_came_from_you/

shiny76

DavidMartin7819 wrote: »

I know its not me, I'm worried someone is using my account somehow or are they just pretend to try and get you to message? How can I tell as they have my email address in the sent parts of the conversation as if ive replied? Ive now changed my password just in case but as some of these go back months and I change my password monthly I'm worried something else is going on

'Email from' details can easily be spoofed, I wouldn't worry about it too much. You can pretend to be pretty much anyone - on the surface at least.

One simple check would be to check your 'Sent items' to see if you have a corresponding message in there. If not, then it's unlikely you've been hacked.
a hacker could, of course, delete items from your sent folder but it's less likely

onomatopoeia99

It's as easy to put a fake sender address on an email as it is for me to post a letter claiming to be "Mrs T. May, 10 Downing street" when I write it - the Royal mail have no idea if the letter they are delivering came from the person that claims to be the author, and SMTP, the mechanism by which email transits the Internet, similarly does not authenticate the sender.

unholyangel

If you go into message source, if it has been spoofed it will show you the real email address its been sent from in the coding.

chesky

You haven't got teenage kids, have you?

Kim_13

I'll move the thread to the Techies section where someone may be able to offer more help.

grumpycrab

unholyangel wrote: »

If you go into message source, if it has been spoofed it will show you the real email address its been sent from in the coding.

Ahh - a Mail expert! Please attach an example message source and show me where to find the real email address of the ******* spammers.