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Hijacked emails from eletopic.com

Had this email apparently sent from one of my email accounts.

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Hey:
I am willing to give you a big surprise: http://www.eletopic.com/
I bought an Samsung 55" FULL HD LED TV a week ago from this site. Now, I have been received. This product quality is very good. They also sell mobile phones, television sets, motorcycles and so on. By the way, they are mainly new and existing product sales, they have a lot of good ideas. Now, many companies are promoting their products. eletopic site is also very competitive price. If you need these products, you can look at.
Hope you can enjoy yourself in shopping from that company !
Greetings!
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I've been sent it before by other people. I'm normally careful about the links I open in emails etc so don't think I picked it up from a bad link. I did a quick Google and it could be that a spammer is putting my email address in the From: box and sending out spam from their own machine so that the email appears to come from me BUT I had several emails come back as undeliverable which suggests the spammer emailed a huge number of people or they had access to my address book.

Any one had this particular one before? Do you think it's a spammer lifting the email off a website or that I've actually have something on the PC that emailed from my side? My other email accounts seem unaffected... so far.

Cheers in advance.

It could be a "joe job". If you run Sendmail or somesuch you can put any email address you like in the from line. It's happened to me before. If your email address is published anywhere on the web, it can and will be scraped.

Cheers, Kevin. Yeah, I'm thinking that as the most likely too but I had 4 bouncebacks as undeliverable and one person email me saying they'd had the email. My own email account was sent the email from that very same account too.

Would a mass mailing hit that many contacts?

Quote: SlagA @ January 21 2010, 10:05 PM GMT

Cheers, Kevin. Yeah, I'm thinking that as the most likely too but I had 4 bouncebacks as undeliverable and one person email me saying they'd had the email. My own email account was sent the email from that very same account too.

Would a mass mailing hit that many contacts?

Could be the spammer picked an address to spoof at random off his own mailing list.

I received an e mail from myself via another account I'd set up.
I thought either this was myself from the future e mailing me to warn me about something or I'd got hacked.
Surprisingly it must have been the latter.

Is there a way to report these things on Hotmail?
And how did they get my password?

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ January 21 2010, 10:19 PM GMT

I received an e mail from myself via another account I'd set up.
I thought either this was myself from the future e mailing me to warn me about something or I'd got hacked.
Surprisingly it must have been the latter.

Is there a way to report these things on Hotmail?
And how did they get my password?

They probably didn't hack your account. If you run your own email server, like spammers do, you can pretend to be any email address you like when you send an email. There's nothing you or I can do about it. It doesn't mean the spammer has access to your inbox or password.

Of course, they may have your password. If so, the way they usually get them nowadays is "phishing" - setting up web sites that look identical to real brands, purely for the purposes of getting you to enter your details.

I sometimes get these spoof emails that seem to come from myself. I have to check they aren't something really random I've sent when I'm very pissed, but thankfully I reserve that for posts on BCG.

I'm still getting phishing E-mails from Abbey National, even the scammers haven't updated to santander!

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ January 21 2010, 10:19 PM GMT

I thought either this was myself from the future e mailing me to warn me about something

:D

Quote: Gagsy @ January 22 2010, 12:44 AM GMT

I'm still getting phishing E-mails from Abbey National, even the scammers haven't updated to santander!

Laughing out loud (the phishers not you getting the emails!)

What gets me is that there are still people that fall for things like this!

Yeah, that's not even how you spell fish!

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