Okay maybe someone can help me figure this out.
Here is the scenario.
My yahoo email, my main account, is sending out fake messages stating in the From line that it is from Me.
However, if you inspect the address it is some foreign email address. The email itself just contains some random link. The problem is that it is sending it to a bunch of my contacts from my Sent list. I don't know how this happened or what steps I should take. This happened once before and I changed the pw and everything not sure if someone is just re-sending to the previous contacts are once against got access to the account. Either way if anyone knows more about this or how I can combat it that would be great.
Okay maybe someone can help me figure this out.
Here is the scenario.
My yahoo email, my main account, is sending out fake messages stating in the From line that it is from Me.
However, if you inspect the address it is some foreign email address. The email itself just contains some random link. The problem is that it is sending it to a bunch of my contacts from my Sent list. I don't know how this happened or what steps I should take. This happened once before and I changed the pw and everything not sure if someone is just re-sending to the previous contacts are once against got access to the account. Either way if anyone knows more about this or how I can combat it that would be great.
Change your password and you should be good.
Change your password and you should be good.
I don't use yahoo email myself, but run through these steps if you haven't already.https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-account/account-sending-spam-sln3417.html
I don't use yahoo email myself, but run through these steps if you haven't already.https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-account/account-sending-spam-sln3417.html
I did both of these things last time around. I enabled the 2 step sign on process following the last time it happened as well. I don't think there is much I can do now since my guess is they have my address book so they will just randomly send out emails to my contacts. Thankfully it has my email roped in with one of the sets that it emails so I get an email right away whenever it does get sent out.
The sign in thing didn't show any other sign ons. Yahoo customer support is impossible to speak with so far.
I did both of these things last time around. I enabled the 2 step sign on process following the last time it happened as well. I don't think there is much I can do now since my guess is they have my address book so they will just randomly send out emails to my contacts. Thankfully it has my email roped in with one of the sets that it emails so I get an email right away whenever it does get sent out.
The sign in thing didn't show any other sign ons. Yahoo customer support is impossible to speak with so far.
Google has a good help article about email spoofing here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200?hl=en
Is basically says to:
Please obtain the full headers of the spam message from Sent Mail or from one of your Contacts, ...
And it also says how to obtain email headers from Yahoo email:
Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
Select the message you'd like to view headers for.
Click the Actions dropdown and select View Full Header.
The full headers will appear in a new window.
For example this email says it's from no-reply@twitch.tv, but is actually from mail6.justin.tv (not a surprise)
Google has a good help article about email spoofing here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200?hl=en
Is basically says to:
[quote]Please [url=https://support.google.com/mail/answer/answer.py?answer=22454]obtain the full headers[/url] of the spam message from Sent Mail or from one of your Contacts, ...[/quote]
And it also says how to obtain email headers from Yahoo email:
[quote]Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
Select the message you'd like to view headers for.
Click the Actions dropdown and select View Full Header.
The full headers will appear in a new window.[/quote]
[url=http://imgur.com/a/2UOwV]For example this email[/url] says it's from no-reply@twitch.tv, but is actually from mail6.justin.tv (not a surprise)