I’ve talked before about email that appears to come from you, but in fact does not.
It seems like everyone has a story to tell these days free#
(And for the record, last year there was a partial account compromise at one of the larger free email services – account credentials were stolen without the users having done anything wrong. It could be anything from a weak password that’s easy to guess, to your account credentials being sniffed in an open WiFi hotspot, to your simply having shared the account information with someone you should not have.įor all we know, it could also be a roommate walking up to your computer when you’re not using it and sending messages right then and there. It’s all too common these days to hear of folks whose accounts have been compromised only to have all their friends get inundated with spam, threats, malicious emails or messages that try to impersonate you and scam your contacts out of money. By virtue of doing so they now have access not only to your email, but to your address book as well. What more likely occurred is that your email account has been compromised – meaning that you probably have an on-line email account, free or otherwise, that someone has gained access too. Most email programs now carefully protect against unauthorized address book access. While that’s still a possibility – and you should absolutely make sure that your anti-malware tools are running and up to date – it’s not nearly as common as it once was. In the “old days”, that typically meant that your computer had acquired a virus, and that virus was in turn accessing your PC’s email program and systematically sending email to everyone in your contact list or address book. Most email programs now carefully protect against unauthorized address book access.
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