dbz3 Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I keep getting E-mails on my E-mail friendishan@animeslave.co.cc from frindishan@animeslave.co.cc Why does this keep happening? Is it that someone has hacked my account or Is heliohost sending me those E-mails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 What do the emails say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 Always different, mostly subject are like i need your help where are you? or sometimes You gotta see this or something, and in all they have a link in it. and the link never works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 It's spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 so that means someone has hacked my account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 so that means someone has hacked my account. No it means somebody has got your email address (from your home page) and is using it as the From: address and sending you spam. You need to look at the email headers and see the host it's coming from. Sometimes you can report the spammer if he's using his own host. That's why it's not a good idea to have your email address listed on your pages but use a form mail instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 How can someone send me mails with my E-mail without knowing my password? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 How can someone send me mails with my E-mail without knowing my password? They're not using your account to send emails, they are just using your address. They could use my address if they had it and wanted too, but the email headers would still show thier true host. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 How are they able to use my address to send mails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 How are they able to use my address to send mails? It's not /really/ your address, it only looks like it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 um.... i get the automated mail too. IT looks something like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvt Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 People can make emails "appear" to be from whomever they want. As an example, try this site: http://emailpranker.com. See how you can send an email to yourself appearing to be from whomever you want? That's because the "From" line of the email header can contain whatever email address I want. However, if you look through the Message Headers, you can see exactly what server the email originated from. This is how many "phishers" (people trying to steal your passwords) work. They make their email appear to be from a legitimate source (such as gmail.com or whatever) and then either ask you to email back your account details or visit some phony website that looks like GMail. Do you understand now? If not, I suggest taking a look at the PHP mail function. The format for it is: mail($SendTo, $SubjectofEmail, $BodyofEmail, $MessageHeaders); By setting $MessageHeaders to "From: Heliohost_Account_Issues@gmail.com\r\n" the email will appear to be from the email address Heliohost_Account_Issues@gmail.com. Coincidentally, that is almost exactly how Email Pranker sends out the "Prank" emails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Lol@Ubuntu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbz3 Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 People can make emails "appear" to be from whomever they want. As an example, try this site: http://emailpranker.com. See how you can send an email to yourself appearing to be from whomever you want? That's because the "From" line of the email header can contain whatever email address I want. However, if you look through the Message Headers, you can see exactly what server the email originated from. This is how many "phishers" (people trying to steal your passwords) work. They make their email appear to be from a legitimate source (such as gmail.com or whatever) and then either ask you to email back your account details or visit some phony website that looks like GMail. Do you understand now? If not, I suggest taking a look at the PHP mail function. The format for it is: mail($SendTo, $SubjectofEmail, $BodyofEmail, $MessageHeaders); By setting $MessageHeaders to "From: Heliohost_Account_Issues@gmail.com\r\n" the email will appear to be from the email address Heliohost_Account_Issues@gmail.com. Coincidentally, that is almost exactly how Email Pranker sends out the "Prank" emails. Ok thanks i get it. anyways how do i check the message headers? Lol@Ubuntu. crap, what is there to "lol" if i use ubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewPH Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 There's an option to show more details to the right of the email details on gmail. Not sure on other hosts. Also, there's nothing wrong with Ubuntu, some linux users just don't like it since it's not what linux was really meant to be; easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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