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Sending SPAM to myself?

by Mike Hlatky
8 replies
In the past two days, I have gotten two separate emails from myself. There is just a single link to a site that Google Chrome says that I shouldn't visit it.

It is also being sent to a couple people on my contacts list.

The email address that it is sent from is my own and it even has my name on it.

How can this happen and how can I stop it?
#sending #spam
  • Profile picture of the author MarathonMan
    Chances are it's just a spammer forging your name on the "sent from" list to trick you into opening the message. It's fairly trivial to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    It's called Spoofing. Check it out:

    Spoofing attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Do you have virus protection. It could also be a virus.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Hlatky
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Do you have virus protection. It could also be a virus.
      I am thinking that there is a virus on my other computer. I might have been logged in there to check my email.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bradley J Anderson
    It's never a good idea to send spam to yourself. Stop it before you get yourself banned. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

    Seriously:

    I've also seen some things on Facebook do that, as well, if you click on them. The last one I remember is the one about seeing what you will look like when you're old, or something to that effect. It put malware on everyone's computer, then sent messages to all their friends, then a few days later everyone was b*tching because emails started being sent out to friends.
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  • Profile picture of the author tgdrew
    If you are seeing messages sent from your account to others in your contact list then your account may be compromised. You might want to run antivirus software on your computer and at the bare minimum reset your password and security question answer. One more thing to check for within your account is any linked email accounts that are used for password recovery.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    I myself got this many times.All you have to do is just put the email id in question as spam.And do complete virus and malware scan to your system.Delete all passwords and cookies stored in browsers.

    Mainly delete the temp folder files from your system.That should safe.Also send an email to all the contacts about this issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    Look at the email headers and see where it's originating from. It's almost certainly a spammer using forged headers, though.
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