My account sends out emails from my account from me but not written by me, (Spammer?) How do I stop it?
Recently my account started sending out advertising emails. I did not send them, they just appeared. I'm guessing a spammer got into my account. Here is the info from the source:
Return-path: My email address Envelope-to: My email address Delivery-date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:02:12 -0700 Received: from 127.mxout.sitti.fr ([78.41.235.127]:48398 helo=srv408.sd-france.net) by biz152.inmotionhosting.com with esmtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from My email address id 1ZeKOq-0009H3-Ao; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:02:12 -0700 Received: from WORLDST-UQ3K9Q0 (unknown [210.7.23.125]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by srv408.sd-france.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEC412CC79; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:02:31 +0200 (CEST) From: (MY email address) To: It then lists all my contacts and then puts in some message such as:
Hey!
Important message, please visit <http://booncafe.com/object.php?z48>
I have deleted all my messages in every folder and have deleted my address book, what do I do to stop this and where do I find the person who did it so I can beat the crap out of them?
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There is no point in deleteing anything except for the bounced email. It is possible that someone is just abusing your email address, which they may have found somewhere on the internet. If that is all that's occurred, then after a while they get bored and stop expecially if no one responds to these emails.
The first you get to hear of it is when they send to an email address which does not exist and so you get a bounce back.
If they have got access to your contact list, there is no point in you deleteing it because it's too late.
Suggest you start your computer in Safe Mode with Networking and run full scans just to rule out that no one is using keylogging or other crap on your computer. Also suggest you try Malwarebytes.
If virus/malware was found to be leaking info, fix first and when you are certain that all is clear, Start in normal mode and update your passwords.
If nothing was found then no worries; all is good.
Suggest that you make sure you have a unique signature that can easilly be used to identify to the recipient that the email really was from you.
This occurred to me a couple of years ago. I sent emails to all my family and friends, informing them that someone had been abusing my email address. I asked them - if you have received one of those emails, do not to click on anything or respond as this would only confirm that the email address was 'live' and could cause them other issues. I also informed them that from now onwards there would be a specific signature in all my emails, so that they would know it is was me.