From and To email address the same.

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Hello everyone,
Can someone tell me if someone can send me email with the From and
the To email addresses the same, i.e., it is my email address.

Does this mean my email account has been hacked and someone has entered
my email account.

Example:
From myemailaddress@domain.com
To myemailaddress@domain.com

Thanks for the help.
#address #email
  • Profile picture of the author BryanShearer
    If someone hacked you, they could be sending out to everyone that you have in your contact list or that you have sent things to before. So if you emailed yourself, then that could be a reason. I would contact your host to have them look into things to see if there is any strange activity.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Barber
    I had/have a similar issue. Does not appear to mean that your email has been hacked, just a clever way of getting round your spam filters as you will not/cannot blacklist it. Annoying and hard to sort unless you want to change your email address and block that or find something consistent about the emails, so you can filter them out.

    Hope that helps.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by profithunter7 View Post

    Does this mean my email account has been hacked and someone has entered my email account.
    No.

    It's a variety of "spoofing". They've made the email appear to come from the recipient's email address, to draw attention to it and increase its chances of hitting your inbox. Depending on your email client, you should be able to check the IP number from which the email has actually been sent (it won't really be yours, but could be a proxy). But they're spammers - open their email at your own risk! :p

    Originally Posted by BryanShearer View Post

    If someone hacked you, they could be sending out to everyone that you have in your contact list or that you have sent things to before. So if you emailed yourself, then that could be a reason. I would contact your host to have them look into things to see if there is any strange activity.
    Sorry, no rudeness intended, Bryan, but you've missed the point and purpose of this activity.
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  • Profile picture of the author webmaster44
    Once i got a email to me from my same email address, i don't know how it happened, same from and to address are same and sent only to my same email address. I changed my login details at that moment.
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    • Profile picture of the author profithunter7
      Hello everyone,
      Thank you for the replies. They sure help.
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  • Profile picture of the author MartinPlatt
    No, it means someone is pretending to be you. This is very easy to do.

    With SMTP the language that the computer can use to send e-mails, it can send whatever it likes as the from and to fields, and no checking occurs to see if the sender owns the e-mail address.

    So all they've done is put your e-mail address in both.

    This can be done from any SMTP enabled server, not just your own.

    I'll tell you a little story - when I was at university I send an e-mail to a guy who was annoying me, as a bit of a practical joke. I sent it on behalf of the computing services desk, and told him that they had had complaints, and that he was banned from using the building for a week, longer unless he got up and left immediately.

    Since that was sent with the correct e-mail address, he believed it. I did tell him a day later, after he'd stewed for a bit.

    The only way he would have been able to tell was to reply and ask, and of course the computing services people wouldn't have had any idea what he was talking about.

    So no, anyone can do it, it's easy, and it doesn't mean you've been hacked. It's a little like sending a letter to someone, pretending to be them in the letter, and putting the return address of the person they're pretending to be. That's other than the fact that it was send form you, to you, which is plainly silly!

    Don't worry about it. The worst ones are when you get e-mails from friends talking about things they wouldn't talk about - they can often be malware, or viruses. So if you do get anything like that, don't click links, just delete them immediately.
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