I have a yahoo email account that shows a email selling cheap prescriptions, and as the sender, it shows my email. In other words:
Recipient: XYZ@yahoo.com, From: XYZ@yahoo.com.
Now I checked the headers and the email seems genuine. I checked my login times and there were no discrepencies that I could see. I usually check my email about the same time everyday and there was nothing different. I also ran 2 different virus and spyware scanners and had no problems.
I then hit reply in the email to see if it would show a different “send to” email, and it still showed my email.
Question: How can someone send an email using your account email? It doesnt seem like they hacked into my account.
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12 responses so far ↓
1 dans_71_dodge_dart // Aug 4, 2008
You should report yourself as a spammer.
2 swiss cheese // Aug 4, 2008
dont send yourself email
3 carl // Aug 4, 2008
maybe someone has the same name as u or some buisness corp noes ur password
4 TheSnacks // Aug 4, 2008
Stop using drugs.
They are making you very messed up.
5 hillbilly_boy40383 // Aug 4, 2008
you need to change your email password asap
6 Jess // Aug 4, 2008
I would love to know the answer to this question too as it happened to one of my accounts also. I panicked because it was my e-bay account with all my info in it but it only ever happened once. It happened about 2 years ago and still nothing has happened to my e-mail or personal info.
Edit: I did change my e-mail password immediately as the person above suggested and maybe that's why I had no further problems?
7 Alex Highschool Guy // Aug 4, 2008
Sounds like some spyware. Pointless spyware. Or maybe you used a program to find email addresses to spam and one of the addresses was your own?
8 Mac T // Aug 4, 2008
Glitch in the e-mail.
9 Colinc // Aug 4, 2008
Many sites collect addresses from infected machines, so anyone with your address may have been infected. They then use automated programs to use all the from addresses and all the to addresses to send spam through a badly secured mail server. These servers are open relays for smtp mail, and where they should block a sender not from their domain they do not. The full header should show the accepting mail server, copying this into an email and sending the header and a copy of the email to abuse@your.mail.provider should enable them to take action if it is from a server they can block.
10 the man the myth the answerer // Aug 4, 2008
Mostly likely some one has access to your account and sending spam with it. I not sure on the termniology for it but I believe its called phishing at some point and time you might have responded to an email asking for your password or went to a bogus site and enter your email and password and the password you use just happened to be the same for your email account. the message will not show up and your sent folder because they delete the message as soon as they send it so there will be no traces of them being in your account. do like the other guy said and change your password.
11 ASV // Aug 4, 2008
Going directly to your question, It is possible and is very easy. This is a trick the spammer has played on not only you, but to me as well as several others that I know of.
Here is what you should do about it:
1. First of all, do not panic. Nobody hacked into your account, although you should check that.
2. Just delete it (as you cannot even report it as SPAM), as Yahoo still is thinking it came from you to you.
3. Go on with your life as usual.
I wish there was a way Yahoo can figure out that this is indeed SPAM and a tricky one at that.
12 Cocoa Cake // Aug 4, 2008
i think it was hacked
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