Posted: 12/23/2012 12:47:00 PM EDT
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If someone has broken into my email and is sending inflammatory messages from it,is there any way I can track this person down prove it's him And maybe bring up charges on him? I know for a fact who it is. It all stems from this. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_13/505803_.html&page=2&anc=5492262#i5492262 This has definitely taught me a hard lesson on not using my name as my email. |
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Does it mean anything that the sent email folder doesn't have these messages in it? It means he probably isn't actually accessing your email. Just putting your address and info in the email header so it looks like he did. Just set up a filter to put any emails from that look like the are from you in your junk folder. It won't effect your ability to send and receive email, and you won't see his harassing BS anymore. EDIT - Misunderstood what is going on. But the way he is "using" your email is the same, he is just doing it to email other people. |
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Is there any way I can prove that he's sending them.This guy's been threatening me and being a pain in the ass douchbag because he didn't like my prices Quoted: Quoted: Does it mean anything that the sent email folder doesn't have these messages in it? It means he probably isn't actually accessing your email. Just putting your address and info in the email header so it looks like he did. Just set up a filter to put any emails from that look like the are from you in your junk folder. It won't effect your ability to send and receive email, and you won't see his harassing BS anymore. |
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anyway to stop this? The Ip is mine in all the listings of activity This tells me your account was not hacked. SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) is the backbone of email - and is notoriously lax in terms of security. For example, it is perfectly valid for me to craft an email, sent from my own ISP and mail server, but using your email address in the "From" field. In fact, this very tactic is used by spamming trojans/malware. If you're concerned about your contacts thinking you're spamming or have lost control of your account (which is apparently not the case), I think your best option is to send out an "all contacts" email (putting all addresses in the BCC line to keep them confidential) letting them know you're aware of spam being sent under your name, offer apologies, and assure them that you would not do such a thing. |
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Is there any way I can prove that he's sending them.This guy's been threatening me and being a pain in the ass douchbag because he didn't like my prices Quoted:
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Does it mean anything that the sent email folder doesn't have these messages in it? It means he probably isn't actually accessing your email. Just putting your address and info in the email header so it looks like he did. Just set up a filter to put any emails from that look like the are from you in your junk folder. It won't effect your ability to send and receive email, and you won't see his harassing BS anymore. Yes, sort of, maybe. You'd need a copy of the full headers of one of the messages that he sent. If he's dumb enough to use a standard email client to do the spoofing then his IP address will be the originating IP. If he's not the technological equivalent of a window licker though, he'd be doing it via trivially easy code on a server or alternatively using one or more anonymous proxies. |
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Quoted: Quoted: have you changed you password to prevent further access? Yes but the pattern to my password is totally random and really can't understand how someone could guess it. He didn't. Spoofing (making email look like it came from somewhere else) is as easy as writing a different return address on the outside of a postal envelope. It works better on email, because people think "computer = credibility" and believe it. What do you think spammers do? Use their own email addresses?
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Quoted: Quoted: Is there any way I can prove that he's sending them.This guy's been threatening me and being a pain in the ass douchbag because he didn't like my prices Quoted: Quoted: Does it mean anything that the sent email folder doesn't have these messages in it? It means he probably isn't actually accessing your email. Just putting your address and info in the email header so it looks like he did. Just set up a filter to put any emails from that look like the are from you in your junk folder. It won't effect your ability to send and receive email, and you won't see his harassing BS anymore. Yes, sort of, maybe. You'd need a copy of the full headers of one of the messages that he sent. If he's dumb enough to use a standard email client to do the spoofing then his IP address will be the originating IP. If he's not the technological equivalent of a window licker though, he'd be doing it via trivially easy code on a server or alternatively using one or more anonymous proxies. how do you find this info? |
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Is there any way I can prove that he's sending them.This guy's been threatening me and being a pain in the ass douchbag because he didn't like my prices Quoted:
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Does it mean anything that the sent email folder doesn't have these messages in it? It means he probably isn't actually accessing your email. Just putting your address and info in the email header so it looks like he did. Just set up a filter to put any emails from that look like the are from you in your junk folder. It won't effect your ability to send and receive email, and you won't see his harassing BS anymore. Yes, sort of, maybe. You'd need a copy of the full headers of one of the messages that he sent. If he's dumb enough to use a standard email client to do the spoofing then his IP address will be the originating IP. If he's not the technological equivalent of a window licker though, he'd be doing it via trivially easy code on a server or alternatively using one or more anonymous proxies. how do you find this info? Someone who has received one of the spoofed message would need to copy/paste the full headers and send them to you to analyze. How they would do that depends on what email program they used to receive the spoofed message. |
