my account is being spoofed
I have a yahoo account. apparently everyone in my address book is receiving a viagra email. How can I stop this?
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what about the previous two posts, mr. psicop.
Is the E-Mail actually being sent from your Yahell! account, or is it simply being sent with headers that claim to be from your account?
There's nothing you can do to prevent someone from sending an E-mail claiming to be from you, but which is actually sent from elsewhere.
If someone is actually accessing your Yahell! account, then that's a horse of a different technicolor. You need to state precisely what is happening.
If someone is actually accessing your Yahell! account, then that's a horse of a different technicolor. You need to state precisely what is happening.
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not sure, I guess thats why I'm asking for your opinions
There's no way for us to know which is happening.
If you have a sample of the E-Mail, with complete headers, you can post it here, after obscuring your E-mail address and anything else that tends to personally identify you (and don't bother with the body of the E-Mail, it's the headers that are important).
But short of that, we have no way of knowing which is happening to you.
If you have a sample of the E-Mail, with complete headers, you can post it here, after obscuring your E-mail address and anything else that tends to personally identify you (and don't bother with the body of the E-Mail, it's the headers that are important).
But short of that, we have no way of knowing which is happening to you.
Ask someone in your address book to forward a copy of the mail headers to you, then post them on here.
This will tell you all kinds of info... what email address the email claimed to be from, the IP address of the computer that sent the mail, the relay it used to get to the recipient, the time it was sent, etc...
Unfortunately there is no easy way to stop this, as some mail servers don't use SPAM filters or blacklists. Traditional email was checked on the basis that all mail was legitimate unless the mail server receiving the mail could provide a valid reason why it should be blocked (using blacklists, spam filters, etc.)
More recently some email providers use technologies such as SPF to make the sender prove that the mail is legitimate.
This will tell you all kinds of info... what email address the email claimed to be from, the IP address of the computer that sent the mail, the relay it used to get to the recipient, the time it was sent, etc...
Unfortunately there is no easy way to stop this, as some mail servers don't use SPAM filters or blacklists. Traditional email was checked on the basis that all mail was legitimate unless the mail server receiving the mail could provide a valid reason why it should be blocked (using blacklists, spam filters, etc.)
More recently some email providers use technologies such as SPF to make the sender prove that the mail is legitimate.
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here is the header
Return-path: <SRS0=C0PNQh=VQ=aol.com=xxxxxxxxxxxx@aol.com>
Envelope-to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:49:46 -0500
Received: from impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.13.103] helo=impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com)
by mailscan07.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim)
id 1PqjRi-0005mM-Pn
for al@tellap.com; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:49:46 -0500
Received: from imr-ma02.mx.aol.com ([64.12.206.40])
by impinc03.yourhostingaccount.com with NO UCE
id 9lpm1g02C0spQVs03lpmc9; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:49:46 -0500
X-EN-OrigIP: 64.12.206.40
X-EN-IMPSID: 9lpm1g02C0spQVs03lpmc9
Received: from imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (imo-ma03.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.138])
by imr-ma02.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p1J9iQ3u007176;
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:26 -0500
Received: from xxxxxxxxxxxx@aol.com
by imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id 9.ce5.74e3415d (43837);
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:21 -0500 (EST)
Received: from smtprly-me03.mx.aol.com (smtprly-me03.mx.aol.com [64.12.95.104]) by cia-dc03.mx.aol.com (v129.9) with ESMTP id MAILCIADC032-b3104d5f90f31b4; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:21 -0500
Received: from TSTMAIL-D01 (tstmail-d01.sim.aol.com [205.188.58.129]) by smtprly-me03.mx.aol.com (v129.9) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYME038-b3104d5f90f31b4; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:19 -0500
To: 1800FLOWERS@e.1800flowers.com, aarpnews@news.aarp.org,
accountmanageremail@accountmanageremail.com, ahoward@dist159.com,
akajanewms@yahoo.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: holla
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:19 -0500
X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI
X-AOL-IP: 65.27.34.47
X-MB-Message-Type: User
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: jvjideations@aol.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 33222-MOBILE
Received: from 65.27.34.47 by TSTMAIL-D01.sysops.aol.com (205.188.58.129) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:44:19 -0500
Message-Id: <8CD9E30B6B2F57B-2124-226CA@TSTMAIL-D01.sysops.aol.com>
X-Spam-Flag:NO
X-AOL-SENDER: xxxxxxxxxxxx@aol.com
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110219-2, 02/19/2011), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: CleanASKER
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