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Comment from christopher on 2008-09-29

2008-09-29T21:54:16Z

Hello Leo:
I am hoping you can help ma and advise me what to do. It was just brought to my attention that someone has been reading all my mail. I have my MSN address on all my important documents including my resume. Anyway, I applied for a position and all went well and the Manager said he would contact me either way. So about 3 weeks went by and I called him. He was very suprised that I called b/c he stated that he wanted to hire me but the reply to address on my email which is plavelle@dartbrokerage.com which is not MINE! I was puzzled and thanked him and decided to email myself and in the reply to section is this address and I noticed somehow they get a copy of my outgoing as well. I just contacted MSN and haven't heard back yet. However, I attempted to contact this Dart Brokerage which appears to be an insurance company by their website, but both my emails to the company and their employee plavelle@dartbrokerage.com both came back as undeliverable because their boxes were full. What the heck is this, and why? How can I remove them on the reply to? I checked all my settings and they are nowhere but they appear on all my mail???

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Comment from Carolyn Rhindress on 2008-09-20

2008-09-20T16:47:16Z

Someone got into all my email address today and sent reunion.com emails to everyone including my own Grandson What the heck do they think they are doing . I hope this stops soon Thank You

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Comment from lisa on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T02:51:57Z

i want to change my password

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Comment from Joy Lynn on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T17:04:58Z

I keep getting email on my windows mail and it says from me but in the right click property it says (may be forge)so do i need to report this to my ISP or not to worry .I can get the ip address on them.should I turn them in?

That's a very common spam technique, and reporting it will do nothing. Delete it and move on with your life.

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Comment from usman on 2008-09-15

2008-09-15T18:15:29Z

someone is using my account and i dun know how to change my password and i also forget my secret question to answer plz help me out of this

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Comment from scott on 2008-09-12

2008-09-12T16:25:03Z

hi
i have a xbox live account and its been stolen by using my windows live account , when i click on forgot password i try to use the secret answer one, and it has been changed by the person that is using my account so i dont know how to retrieve it because i have no alternate e-mail added
Thanks

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-23

2008-07-23T16:34:32Z

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It never hurts to change your password. Just make sure to
pick a good one.
http://ask-leo.com/whats_a_good_password.html

Leo

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Comment from phyllis on 2008-07-22

2008-07-22T19:43:22Z

i am new at this computer stuff, but my husband and son have email accounts on our computer also, should we all change our passwords,we also have an email address for our church on this computer should we change that password also?

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Comment from Tim Sanders on 2008-07-21

2008-07-21T19:29:42Z

Leo: I hope you have heard of this scam but if not here's a new one for you. I am part of a committee that is putting on a high school reunion. The committee chair suggested I go to Yahoo.com and look into their "reunion groups" which I did. The only link they had to reunions was a website called "REUNIONS.com" to I clicked on the website. In order to access the information for your high school, you of course had to register, which I did. As I was looking at the information that they had, I thought I could use this information for say the next 90 days to get out notices to the people on Reunions.com list that went to my high school. So I paid by credit card 36 bucks for 90 days. When I hit submit, not only did they take my money but they stole my entire email address book from my computer!! without a password but I was signed in of course.
Within minutes I was receiving dozens of emails and phone calls from people livid about me giving out their email addresses, which I of course had to explain. This went on for two weeks! I wrote Reunion.com an angry note and told them they could keep my money (they had a no return policy anyway) and stick it where the sun didn't shine. They still send me emails about who has been trying to contact me but I won't open them as I am afraid that they will again steal my address book. I have changed my password. I don't know who to pass this information on to, other than everyone on my email list. Is there a website I can report this to or do I go to the police? Got any suggestions? Thanks for your time.

Tim

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Comment from Jen on 2008-07-08

2008-07-08T15:59:30Z

Thanks for the great article. Helped a ton! Sent the link to everyone I know so maybe we can find ther person with the address book virus and have them fix it.

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Comment from angela on 2008-06-25

2008-06-25T14:07:30Z

Hi Leo,
please advise me how I can stop my own husband from tracking emails from our home computer. I am tired of all this.
Thanks

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Comment from Leo on 2008-06-24

2008-06-25T00:48:21Z

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You're just getting spam, like everyone else. I'd simply
ignore 'em and move on.

Leo

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Comment from Gwen on 2008-06-23

2008-06-24T02:24:25Z

Receiving spam emails about purchases I didn't make. Afraid someone is using my email address. I changed my password already. I tried to delete the account but cannot.

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Comment from Leo on 2008-06-15

2008-06-15T16:52:30Z

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You can't.

If it's serious enough I would register a complaint with
appropriate athorities so as to be on record that it's not
you who's doing the harassing. Perhaps even persue whatever
legal action is available to stop the culprit. But the
authorities will have to be involved for that.

Leo

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Comment from mary on 2008-06-13

2008-06-13T22:20:32Z

Someone is sending very threatening emails using my email address through a website called deadfake.com. They have not actually hacked into my email acct. but are able to disguise theirselves as me by using my email address on this webisite which sends out the emails. I am receiving messages from people telling me that they are contacting the police due to ''my'' threatening emails... it's very scarey and I don't know how to stop it.

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Comment from linda on 2008-05-09

2008-05-10T06:17:37Z

Hi Leo

My ex n I have a problem with his ex. She got his email password n read all our emails. He says he thinks maybe she got it from someone who offers to do this on the net???...I have read about this n I am aware that some pleople claim to be able to do this -but I dont know if it really can be done-. Any way if this is what she did, I am afraid she could also get my email password. Is this possible? how can I protect my self n my info?...btw, the days after she got his password, I received a postcard that I opened but not postcard at all! I am afraid it can be a virus :S can this be related (could she be trying to get my password or some other infor by a mean like this -she has no train or skills in IT-)? n even if it is not related, what can I do with this second issue of the false postcard?

tks in advance

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Comment from Radovan Pokorny on 2008-05-09

2008-05-09T12:35:06Z

I have the same problem... I would not mind if my email was not in blacklist on some sites and when I send important email to someone and I dont know even that he didnt get it than it is bad.

People are calling me... did you send it already and I say yes few times... But we never got your email.

That sucks...

Can I prevent this and also getting those undelivered mail messages? I am getting like 100 per day last days.

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Comment from Leo on 2008-05-04

2008-05-04T23:50:02Z

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Contact the authorities.

Thanks,

Leo

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Comment from Allison Milller on 2008-05-04

2008-05-04T20:19:28Z

someone has hacked into my account and has gotten my personal informationlike my address, phone number, and name. I deleted the account. But, now i am recieving stuff in the mail and i am expected to pay for it. What am i supposed to do?

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Comment from Leo on 2008-05-03

2008-05-03T22:37:44Z

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"What should I do?" - Probably read the article you just
commented on. :-) It pretty clearly explains what's going
on.

Thanks,

Leo

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Comment from Jayce on 2008-05-03

2008-05-03T12:29:40Z

Hi , Someone is using my email address to do spam mail last week . I have changed my password and today i still receive the same spam me again. When I did a replay it replied back to my email add. What should I do?

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Comment from David Pearl on 2008-04-07

2008-04-07T10:17:56Z

I have in the last few weeks been receibg numerous failure messages of emails that I have never sent which have been returned to sender only these were not sent by me in the first palce. these mostly are in Russian alphabet characters. We also had to remove a virus which got through our file wall and anti virus software. It looks like I will need to change my email address.

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Comment from hakan on 2008-03-30

2008-03-31T01:06:37Z

Sorry on the previous post to and from fields appeared empty.Don't know why maybe ıt was reformatted in html.It should read like this:
me@gmail.com both.
Yes I have read the article.And actually I landed here through googling. I was here before many times.
thanks

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Comment from hakan on 2008-03-30

2008-03-31T00:51:00Z

Hello LEO
Can YOU analyze it if you find time?
I just changed x originating, x sender, to and from fields to me.For the sake of not getting more spam.As for the mail I am really confused.I never saw something like this.Looks like I am the sender but return path is different.To make it short,I am not trying to explain but looking for advice.
Delivered-To: me@gmail.com
Received: by 10.35.68.8 with SMTP id v8cs155858pyk;
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.78.170.17 with SMTP id s17mr16746952hue.17.1206391598102;
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from casa-lb4n2gfdhl ([190.54.200.124])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id f6si2171818nfh.21.2008.03.24.13.46.29;
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email removed] does not designate 190.54.200.124 as permitted sender) client-ip=190.54.200.124;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning [email removed] does not designate 190.54.200.124 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=[email removed]
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:36 -0700 (PDT)
X-Originating-IP: [190.54.200.124]
X-Originating-Email: [me@gmail.com]
X-Sender: me@gmail.com
Received: (qmail 9368 by uid 778); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:46:33 -0400
Message-Id:
To:
Subject: RE: MensHealth id 618839
From:

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Comment from John Hansen on 2008-03-29

2008-03-30T02:14:21Z

Hi. I hope this is not off topic. For the second time in 4 months - I have had a webhosting account suspended - they had some company in england that had a link from one of my sites and they say I'm running a phishing site. I don't send email and although I get at least 8 phishing deals everyday - I've never clicked on any of them. About 8 months ago someone said another of my sites was sending spam from an older article directory I had that wasn't being use and wasn't even on the pages to be found.

How do we protect our websites from this kind of stuff and if this goes on - nobody will dare rent webspace anymore - and why do the webhosts buy all this time and shut sites down - just on the word of some stranger or organization.

Thanks - the website in question is: http://the-idaho-trader.com

I have mccafee latest, suite 8 and spyware doctor with anti-virus and super antispyware free edition

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Comment from benjamin csinado on 2008-03-10

2008-03-10T20:31:47Z

i have meet some friends on cragislist.com and now my girlfriend is getting all the messages i talked to them about and their all deleted from my email an i dont know how shes geting the emails i talked to people over a year ago that i even for got? please help its killing our relationship..

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Comment from Golf on 2008-03-10

2008-03-10T09:26:54Z

A Canadian Pharm. web firm: www.tookgas.com -
are sending spam with Viagra with, my Mail account as sender, this is of course not my mail, but the mail-header refer as it is from my mail/domain!
Is it possible to sue theese assholes!

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Comment from Bill Nelson on 2008-01-31

2008-02-01T07:09:05Z

Last week, I began receiving spam from a Canadian Pharmacy with my personal email address (not the one I'm using now) as both the sending and receiving address. This makes it bypass the normally excellent Postini spam filter. When the second ad arrived, I crossed my fingers and opened it, then clicked on Unsubscribe. Of course, it didn't work. Today I received the same message at this account that I use for non-personal messages, with my address in this account as both sender and receipient. This uses another spam filter, but it couldn't stop this one either. My McAfee AV software is current and scans the entire computer regularly. How can I stop this unwanted spam? It doesn't appear to be going to others in my address book. I've asked them.

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Comment from STEPHANIE on 2008-01-31

2008-01-31T16:58:03Z

SOMEONE HAS USED OUR COMPANY EMAIL ADDRESS TO SEND AN EMAIL TO ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS, CALLING HIM OBSCENITIES . THE CONTENT SHOWED THAT WHOEVER SENT IT HAS A KNOWEDGE OF THE TYPE OF BUSINESS WE ARE IN , AND IT SEEMS THEY ARE TRYING TO ANGER OUR CUSTOMER WITH THE INTENT OF TAKING HIS BUSINESS. IS THERE A WAY TO FIND OUT WHO DID THIS?

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Comment from Nick on 2008-01-16

2008-01-16T18:57:22Z

I appreciate how email addresses get spoofed. I can also understand viruses that go to the address book on your hard drive. But can anyone explain how a spam mail originating from me has gone to the first page of my Yahoo! Contacts when those contacts are not downloaded on to my hard drive. They only exist on the web. I use a Mac at home and a PC at work. The PC has been scanned for viruses and none have been found.

Any ideas gratefully received!

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Comment from Scott on 2008-01-08

2008-01-09T07:06:43Z

Someone is sending my girlfriend threatening e-mails and using my e-mail address as the sender. She knows it is not me but they are beginning to become a little spooky. We are becomming concerned for her safety. Is there anything that can be done to find out who this person may be?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-01-04

2008-01-04T19:42:58Z

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If you don't have access to the accounts then you likely
cannot delete them. Contacting customer service may be
ineffective, but it's your only option.

Leo

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Comment from aanal shah on 2008-01-03

2008-01-03T08:45:05Z

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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Comment from Arwen on 2007-11-10

2007-11-10T15:57:56Z

Someone claims to have mirrored my Gmail account, is that at all possible?
The person did send me back a part of an email that I sent, I don't know if they glimpsed it while it was open on the receiver's pc or if indeed they can mirror my account.
Please help

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Comment from David Fong on 2007-10-28

2007-10-28T07:11:23Z

I use a Mac, i have been continually getting emails from my default address but they are not addressed nor is there text in the body, what does this mean (apart from it irritating the hell out of me!).

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Comment from Jesse on 2007-09-30

2007-09-30T08:22:35Z

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.)

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Comment from Steven in seattle on 2007-09-20

2007-09-21T02:36:42Z

Can I stop the people who use my domain name to send spam? Easy enough to get an IP address out of the headers when the 75+of the bounces a day includes the failed spam-message!

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Comment from antonio on 2007-05-13

2007-05-13T14:05:51Z

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

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Comment from Josh on 2007-03-11

2007-03-11T10:37:36Z

I was scammed out of a large sum of money via email and wanted to know if the senders IP address could be found by the emails I received.

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Comment from Dominic Alan Farnworth on 2007-02-11

2007-02-11T11:34:57Z

I will reserve my comments

Dominic

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Comment from Gina Roche on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T21:38:03Z

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Comment from Walter on 2007-01-03

2007-01-03T10:10:09Z

Can we report the people who use my domain name to send spam? Easy enough to get an IP address out of the headers if one of the bounces includes the failed spam-message!

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Comment from jenny on 2006-12-09

2006-12-09T20:06:28Z

Someone i know knows my password and used my email account and pretended to be me and sent a very damaging email to certain personn i also knew. That recipient is now planning to file a suit against me with that email message as his evidencee. How can i prove that i did not send that particular email that bears my name and email account?

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Comment from Karen Creswick on 2006-11-15

2006-11-15T08:46:07Z

As my email previous email address and password has been stolen, is there any way I can close this account to stop further embarassment?

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Comment from Karen Creswick on 2006-11-15

2006-11-15T08:41:52Z

Someone has stolen my email account and password. I have no access to this account anymore and they are sending private emails and photos to all of my contacts, please help me.

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Comment from leslie on 2006-10-31

2006-11-01T03:43:13Z

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!

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-10-10

2006-10-10T16:10:58Z

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.

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Comment from Pat on 2006-10-10

2006-10-10T07:46:24Z

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.

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Comment from Bev on 2006-08-02

2006-08-02T23:23:54Z

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.

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Comment from angela on 2006-07-24

2006-07-24T15:20:41Z

I need to find out how to find all the email addresses for my home address?

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Comment from Ashley on 2006-06-04

2006-06-04T23:39:00Z

I forgot my myspace password and i went to the thing that says Forgot your passwprd.so it said it e-mailed it to me but it didnt. They can take the time out to tell me whe i got messages but not what my password ie. What do i do?

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Comment from Martin on 2006-05-24

2006-05-25T05:41:14Z

My email, once a day, sends my lastest and greatest password to someone at tosecko@yahoo.com. I have tried various sweepers, stingers, firewalls, virus scans but cannot seem to find the dang bug!

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Comment from Leo on 2006-05-24

2006-05-24T19:52:08Z

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

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Comment from don on 2006-05-24

2006-05-24T16:40:35Z

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?

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Comment from Leo on 2006-05-12

2006-05-12T16:27:50Z

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".

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Comment from LaurieH on 2006-05-12

2006-05-12T08:52:47Z

Someone is sending mail using my email address. I have run a trace and I know the IP address. Is there anyway I can stop these emails going out under my "name"?

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Comment from LaurieH on 2006-05-12

2006-05-12T08:49:49Z

Someone is sending out nuisance emails using my email address. I am getting swamped with return emails. I have done a trace and know the IP address where the mail is being generated. Is there any way I can have these emails from the "foreign IPP address stopped???

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Comment from tkabat on 2006-02-10

2006-02-10T19:08:53Z

you are the best

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Comment from Leo on 2006-01-04

2006-01-05T05:11:32Z

That would be this article: http://ask-leo.com/someone_has_stolen_my_email_account_what_can_i_do_to_get_it_back.html

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Comment from sam on 2006-01-03

2006-01-03T16:18:14Z

my email address has been hack/cracked and i dunno how to get it back its got some very important things on it. can you help? Please? my email adress that you CAN contact me on is [Personal Information Removed]

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T01:42:33Z

You want this article: http://ask-leo.com/ive_forgotten_the_answer_to_my_msn_hotmail_secret_question_and_my_password_what_do_i_do.html

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Comment from lorna on 2005-12-16

2005-12-17T03:35:55Z

theses answers are perfect and just want i needed to know. thank you so much.

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Comment from Peter on 2005-12-10

2005-12-11T00:46:33Z

Like hundreds, possibly thousands of others, I have had my Yahoo Account stolen through a fake Yahoo login site (please don't think it cannot happen to you, it is becoming very common)
Yahoo will not help you, because the thief changes the personal details, therefore you cannot answer all the security questions. -catch 22-

I have started a Yahoo group so victims like us can get together and help each other and warn other people about this problem. I hope people will visit the web page and leave a message of support. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stolen_account/

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-07

2005-12-08T06:30:05Z

Joyce: I believe those are the result of some new "services" that AOL has implemented recently.

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Comment from joyce on 2005-11-30

2005-12-01T05:10:18Z

I have noticed this for awhile when i leave my computer I clear my toolbar when i get on the next day i will look in the history and it will say aol:olm_0039 Super buddies or aol:0lm_0057mobile phone or aol:olm_0087games and I dont know where this is coming from there is no other person in my home is someone using my computer with a mobile phone or did someone get my password please let me know TY

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Comment from Leo on 2005-11-22

2005-11-23T04:25:15Z

Set up a rule in yoru mail client to automatically delete those mails.

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Comment from Alex on 2005-11-20

2005-11-20T09:56:52Z

I've got over 500 My_Doom emails within a week from: Received: from 210-86-121-252.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.121.252]
I have complained to XTRA.CO.NZ had no repl. at all.
What can I do??

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Comment from liquid on 2005-11-10

2005-11-10T22:09:35Z

Hi Rahul,

You may know by now that the attachment to that email is the MYTOB.LP worm. No one is using your email account to send unsolicited emails. Please do not open and execute these attachments! If you get a 'scary' email in the future try googling a section of the text to see if its genuine or not.

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Comment from Mick on 2005-11-05

2005-11-05T14:38:53Z

My Yahoo email account [Personal Information Removed] was compromised by the yahoo IM password theft scheme last week. You are correct, Yahoo customer service doesn't help at all. I am unable to either get the profile back in my control or to have yahoo shut it down. Yahoo itself should be shut down since they seem to not demponstrate any corporate responsibility for their product or how it's used. Hackers exploite both people and software. I fell for the people end, but there was nothing in their software that would help me or others keep their accounts safe.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-10-27

2005-10-27T15:57:01Z

No, if there's a virus, it'd be on your computer. Any problems on the Yahoo side would be temporary, and cleared up very quickly.

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Comment from eddie ifft on 2005-10-27

2005-10-27T15:35:54Z

Is it possible that my yahoo account and not my computer is infected with a virus? it is behaving very strangly.

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Comment from Abdallah on 2005-10-10

2005-10-10T16:36:18Z

Sometimes my password doesn't work and other days it does. On the days it doesn't work emails are deleted/added. Is there a way to find out how many times my password has been changed? I know how many times I've changed it so I thought if it's more than that I would know for sure that someone is locking me out on purpose.and then allowing me back in when they take care of what they need to or want to.
Thanks - Abdallah

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Comment from rahul on 2005-10-10

2005-10-10T13:36:43Z

I am Rahul From india & i have registered domain (mydomain.com )changed name , last some days i am receiving this kind of mails from my Domain
(EVEN THIS ACCOUNT IS MY AND I NEVER SENT ANY THIS TYPE OF MAIL )i don't know how many parsons RECEIVING THIS Mail And the Attachment with virus , scaer that my site can be black listed due to this spaming THAT I NEVER DONE :(

here the that i got

----- Original Message -----
From: info at mydomain dot com
To: my add at mydomain dot com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 2:49 PM
Subject: *DETECTED* ONLINE USER VIOLATION

>
> Dear mydomain Member,
>
> Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam
messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you
will not run into any future problems with the online service.
>
> If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to
cancel your membership.
>
> Virtually yours,
> The mydomain Support Team
>
>
>
>
>
>
> +++ Attachment: No Virus found
> +++ mydomain Antivirus - www.mydomain.com

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Comment from Leo on 2005-10-08

2005-10-08T18:08:21Z

You want this article: http://ask-leo.com/ive_forgotten_the_answer_to_my_msn_hotmail_secret_question_and_my_password_what_do_i_do.html

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Comment from Gul on 2005-10-08

2005-10-08T17:10:49Z

Hey Dear LEO.....
i need ur help .. some one has hacked my id's password and he has changed the secret question aswell ... i am so worried abt it bcoz i have my impotant mails in it ... the hacked id is [Personal Information Removed] .. plz plz plz and plz find out my password and kindly send it to my new mail address .. [Personal Information Removed]
i will be so thankful to u guys ..bcoz i have the last hope from u guyz ....
bye .. i will be waiting for ur response ..

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