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Offline dante

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Has anyone here had their name / email list spoofed?
« on: Sun, 16 November 2014, 21:09:03 »
My wife's email account has probably been hacked in some way - as someone is using her name and sending out Emails to people in her email address list (I'm on it.)

Does anyone know what can be done other than the obvious (changing email addresses / warning others.)?
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Offline dante

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Re: Has anyone here had their name / email list spoofed?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 16 November 2014, 21:27:24 »
update: The email address that the email originated from is not hers - but is still using her name.
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Re: Has anyone here had their name / email list spoofed?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 16 November 2014, 21:38:28 »
Backscattering.

At work we had a huge spate of that a year or so ago.

Eventually it will just fade away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)
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Offline dante

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Re: Has anyone here had their name / email list spoofed?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 16 November 2014, 22:09:33 »
Thank you - wasn't even sure what this activity was called.  I guess we'll just have to wait it out and warn potential victims.
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