Someone's sending from my email address! How do I stop them?!

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If it's a single IP address, you can use tools like ARIN's "who is" to identify the ISP that owns that IP address, and report to their abuse address. But that's about as far as it can typically be taken.

http://whois.arin.net

In all practicality, the answer is more likely, "no".

I just noticed that email I send to one employee is suddenly being forwarded to another email account, usually hours after the original message was sent. How is this possible?

Depends on many things, but the most obvious is the employee setting up some kind of auto-forward.

I cant say that someone is sending emails from my account but i can say that someone has been in my email account and has been reading my emails, because i work shifts and i know that this is happening because the emails been opened.
How do i get the ISP numbers that have used the email account. I have changed password and have a different secret question. I have also downloaded a firewall. But i really would like to know by name who has been doing this.

Mail is ostensibly being returned to me which I did not originate. My e-mail address before the @ is both incorrect and varied. I use Outlook Express. Where segments of these messages are added to the "returned" e-mail they appear to be company sensitive. What can I do to stop this and only receive e-mails with the complete correct address.

Nothing, really. The best you could do would be to try and set up a message rule to somehow immediately delete those mails. If it's possible (I'm not 100% on OE's rules processing) you'll want to be VERY careful that you don't delete something you wanted by mistake.

Someone is doing online surveys, etc and using my email addres and also giving these company's my cell phone number. I have an idea who is doing these things but have no way of proving it. What do you suggest I do? I've also received a call the other day from a credit card company offering me an alternative credit card. I asked how they got my cell number since I am on a DO NOT CALL LIST & was told I had applied for a credit card online & was turned down. When I told them I did no such thing & asked to speak to management I was given the run around. I did however get one company to give me the IP address from the so called email I had sent & it's an AOL IP, I am not with AOL or nor have I ever been. What can I do about this, where do I even start. My email is full of spame and my cell phone continually rings now with different telemarketers stating I applied for this or that or I won a trip I applied for online. HELP!

I have a very serious problem. I have a protective order out on someone I know, but they have seemed to find a way around it, they are harrassing and threatening me online, on myspace to be specific. I have contacted the police to file charges and to get the harrassment to stop but they say without "proof" that it is him that they can not do anything. My question is, how do I get the isp address? I need it in order to press charges. Please help me, tis is very important. It is affect me and my young children and I feel like we are no longer safe anywhere. I need to stop him before something serious happens to us. Thank you

Gina: In order to get the IP Address for someone harassing you on Myspace, you would have to contact the people who actually have access to the Myspace logs--i.e., the Myspace staff. Good luck--I can tell you now it is not going to happen unless you've got a few million dollars for legal weight behind you.

Josh, depending on the e-mail client you use, the headers can be viewed in a number of different ways (including opening up the e-mail in a plain text editor, like Notepad for Windows users). In the case of web mail, you would have to either have a "built-in" way to view headers, or configure an e-mail client to download e-mails from the server.

antonio: Eh? Copypasta?

Steven: No, it's not possible. Right now, using a very simple PHP script, I could send you an e-mail from "god@heaven.org" if I wanted to. Naturally, I do not own the "god@heaven.org" account, heh.

There is good news, however. Those who -do- spoof your address can only use it for one-way communication, unless they add their OWN address as the "Reply-To" header (and if that's the case, then it's obviously not you, right? XD). In other words, while anyone can SEND an e-mail as anyone else, they can only RECIEVE e-mail at their own addresses.

(Also, if it's a very important e-mail, I do check the headers, and see if the IP address has a DNS entry that matches with the apparent sender.)

i hav a account in hotmail, yahoo, google talk & orkut all my ids hav got hacked i hav written it to all d help centers to please delete my account bt there is no resopnse frm their side please tell me wht should i do 2 recover my password or delete my account...please do reply

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