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My email has been hijacked, so if you get an email from me and its spam, it was not from me, I have changed my password and will monitor it.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:08 am My email has been hijacked, so if you get an email from me and its spam, it was not from me, I have changed my password and will monitor it.

River

Hi River,

I did get an email from you with a link to a pharmacy offering deals on Viagra. I knew it couldn't have come from you because I know you're aware of my female status.

Been on Facebook? They feature robot hujackers.

Yes, the other day, and I normally don't go there.

Thanks,

River

Been happening in Yahoo Groups too.

Moi

It can also happen if you are in the address book of someone whose computer gets hacked.

Happened to a friend of mine a couple of years ago and I still get occasional emails from myself offering Viagra.

I do not keep an address book on my PC for that reason.

C.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:08 am My email has been hijacked, so if you get an email from me and its spam, it was not from me, I have changed my password and will monitor it.

River

If your were a user of the Unix News feeds, you email address is not hidden and the spammers got my email that way. I still get anywhere between 70-200 spams a day, luckily 99% of them end up in the spam bind and note 99% are from over seas.

_g

I went up in a small plane with a hot little number one day and she gave me a "high jacking". However, I enjoyed it...

Then that Last Will and Testament you sent me leaving me all your worldly fortune really isn't valid?

A-1 is a dirty old man

Dave is a funny guy as well.

I think changing the password did the job. thanks all

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:40 am A-1 is a dirty old man

Dave is a funny guy as well.

I think changing the password did the job. thanks all

River

I am afraid that I have bad new for you! Depending upon their skill, they do not need your password. That is only required to access your email account. They send the email from one of their own accounts using your id as a pseudonym.

They used to use computer generated ids, but spam filters have become quite good at spotting those. So, they use valid ones instead. Even if you were to change the name you use it would not stop emails appearing under the hijacked one.

Typically, when they hijack an email id they use it to send out hundreds of spam. After a short while they will move to another name. However, yours will remain in their database and will be used periodically. You will probably not be aware of this unless friends get one or you get a message from a 'postmaster' telling you that your email was to an invalid address. If you check the 'IP' address on the mail sent it will not be one you are using, but it is probably not genuine either.

All you can do now is to grin and bear it.

colin (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:05 pm I am afraid that I have bad new for you! Depending upon their skill, they do not need your password. That is only required to access your email account. They send the email from one of their own accounts using your id as a pseudonym.

They used to use computer generated ids, but spam filters have become quite good at spotting those. So, they use valid ones instead. Even if you were to change the name you use it would not stop emails appearing under the hijacked one.

Typically, when they hijack an email id they use it to send out hundreds of spam. After a short while they will move to another name. However, yours will remain in their database and will be used periodically. You will probably not be aware of this unless friends get one or you get a message from a 'postmaster' telling you that your email was to an invalid address. If you check the 'IP' address on the mail sent it will not be one you are using, but it is probably not genuine either.

All you can do now is to grin and bear it.

That is the experience at Yahoo Groups.

The hacker there has continued on one person's ID although they changed their password but, now has moved onto another senior member's ID.

Subject line is the usual give away. I guess it is a way to get through SPAM guards.

If I marked such e-mail as SPAM, would that block the real sender ID too or the fake sender's ISP address?

Moi

All for fun or does anyone ever really make a dime off such efforts?

Well its kinda stupid to send adds for Viagra to eunuchs and transgendered.

River

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moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:48 pm If I marked such e-mail as SPAM, would that block the real sender ID too or the fake sender's ISP address?

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A trick is to send the spam email to your email with your email as the return. Then if you just declare it spam, your spam filter blocks your name. Then you have to call the email administrator to get it fixed.

Dave (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:14 am A trick is to send the spam email to your email with your email as the return. Then if you just declare it spam, your spam filter blocks your name. Then you have to call the email administrator to get it fixed.

Thanks Dave, but I don't want to mess around with calling the wrong item SPAM.

Is SPAM ID'ed by the ISP or sender's name?

Moi

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:46 am Thanks Dave, but I don't want to mess around with calling the wrong item SPAM.

Is SPAM ID'ed by the ISP or sender's name?

Moi

It depends on the program settings. You're going to have to ask an administrator.

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:29 am Then that Last Will and Testament you sent me leaving me all your worldly fortune really isn't valid?

Dave, Do you REALLY want my wife, 4 moved out children, 8 grandchildren, our 3 cats, 5 dogs and a volunteer Raccoon that inhabits our garage and fights the POSSUM for the cat food???

My wife is not so bad, though. I always thought it was worth putting up with the rest of them just to be with her... can't take her with me, though. I do not live in Hindu India...

The cats are a deal breaker.

I can take another man's wife, dog etc... but never cats.

The only good cat is a stuffed, dead cat.

with a pencil sharpener up its butt.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:03 pm Well its kinda stupid to send adds for Viagra to eunuchs and transgendered.

River

Or to senile old buzzards like me.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:48 pm If I marked such e-mail as SPAM, would that block the real sender ID too or the fake sender's ISP address?

Moi

As Dave already said, it depends upon your email service. With mine, BTYahoo, I cannot send an email to myself but I do get spam email apparently from myself offering Viagra. BTYahoo use the IP address rather than the email name so having marked that one as spam means that it blocks a whole slew of spam using different sender's names.

I wondered why you sent me a link to cialis, viagra, etc.. Seemed rather stange to me.

OneBallBoi (imported) wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:26 am I wondered why you sent me a link to cialis, viagra, etc.. Seemed rather stange to me.

And what's he doing sending sinful / LUSTFUL porn to a sweet nun?

kristoff wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:32 am And what's he doing sending sinful / LUSTFUL porn to a sweet nun?

Sense when???

Did something change and nobody told me????



River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:08 am Sense when???

Did something change and nobody told me????

River

Yeah,

Didn't you know? He fell into a vat of syrup. Only way to make him sweet!