Someone Using My Mail Contacts !!!

@akp100 (13647)
India
January 18, 2012 8:14am CST
Hello Friends :) Just today I got two notifications of "Sending Fail" on my yahoo mail. Than I thought that I haven't sent any message these days. I checked it and found that it was message about promoting some money making site and I also found that message got sent to all people who are in my contacts !! But I never sent such message. Some of my mylot friends should also got this message from me.. So just ignore it. I am not promoting it. Now... What should be reason for this?? Is this like my account got hack ?? I also changed my password after this... One friend told me that it can happened because of some face book app that I allowed on my facebook account.. But I haven't added single app since 6 months! I have heard about this but isn't it like those app can only send message on our email address.. They can even send message from our mailing address too.. I don't know what was the reason.. But still I deleted all app from my fb account as I am not even using them. And also changed my mail password. I hope in future this will not be repeated. What you think about it? And do you know how can I prevent it?
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8 responses
Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
18 Jan 12
Aaargh! This is so not safe. And I was wondering why this akp is sending me such things.
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
Even I am confused on this..This is happened first time with me.. I don't know whats the reason.. Suny is telling that I have probably downloaded something. But I haven't downloaded anything like this.. Tell me have you receive this kind of mail from me before? Hope not... Also inform me if you get anything like this from me in future..
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
Yes.. There was mail addresses of my offline friends and relatives.. I hope this is not going to trouble them.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
18 Jan 12
Yes, I have received your email. That's why I was wondering.
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Patsie Hatley is Deceased
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Jan 12
hi akp the person sending those is a scammer who got into one of your friends co mputer with a virus and is now using their address book and the names i n it to send out their virus laden crap. so delete and warn your friends to check for virus as one of your friends as a nasty probably trojan horwse virus and the scammer is using their address book to send out phony emaikls pro porting to be from all their friends,It happened to me twice and no it was not in my computer nor was I hacked. it was in a close friends c omputer and she had an awful time getting rid of the virus. so ask all your friends to check their computers as one of them has this awful virus.When you find stuff like this again just delete but also warn your friends one of them has the virus on their computer.you will not have it as you are just the unwitting victime of this scammer.it will not be on your own computer. I have this happen sev eral times and it was not on my own computer but on a close friends.
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hora_fugit
@hora_fugit (5859)
• India
18 Jan 12
Thank you miss Hatley for emphasizing on this point. I read about it in the article someone supplied here yet overlooked it. Now I'll remember to alert all my friends if ever it happens with me. Hopefully apk is going to do the same... I would ask for some more info: did your friend had the same problem as you, i.e. was she also accused of spamming others? If so, it would be faster to identify the compromised account: it will be having its own problems. Thanks again.
hora_fugit
@hora_fugit (5859)
• India
19 Jan 12
Thanks dupremo I have been long here and do agree that she is a valuable member, one of the most senior and intelligent users, of myLot. Still I will use Miss unless she objects herself! :P @Hatley Please tell me...
naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
19 Jan 12
HI Hatley.. I guess this is the problem in my case too.. Hope so. Because I have just purchased a new laptop before 15 days.. So I don't think so there is problem of virus or else because I never got such problem within past 7 years with my old laptop. I have even anti keylogger and anti virus software on my system. Thanks for the good information. I look like problem is this. This problem hasn't repeated yet. Hope this will be not repeated... Thanks for giving some relaxation words..
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hora_fugit
@hora_fugit (5859)
• India
18 Jan 12
I read through all the responses before replying here and seems I can't give any advice. Still, in my opinion changing your security questions as well is a good idea... Sometimes networking sites ask you to 'import contacts' from your email account so you can see 'who has also joined' this site. I refrain from doing so, for I am way too private person. You have to give your user-id and password for the same. And that's not secure. It could be a possibility in your case, though I have reasons to believe otherwise. I am now checking how to track IP in yahoo. It's lot easier to understand in Gmail...
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
18 Jan 12
It happens all the time..I ignore it coz I do know which of my friends would send me what type of mails. :)
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
Well, In my case, I am the sender not the receiver...
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vanny
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
18 Jan 12
Whatever..as long as the domain name is general like gmail..or yahoo..ignore.
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
You mean I should ignore if someone sending mails to my contacts using my email address !!
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inu1711
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
18 Jan 12
Hello AKP, I'm afraid I don't have good news for you. I remember a friend of mine had the same problem a few month ago and he didn't receive good news either. Here's the discussion he started on the same issue: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2570379.aspx I remember I did some research back then and here's the article with the possible solution to your problem: http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html I hope you will find the answers to your problem inside this article.
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inu1711
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
18 Jan 12
If I remember well, you should also change the security questions related to your e-mail address, not only the password. If the hacker has the answers to your old security questions, he can change your password any time.
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
That's the good point.. But I wonder if it is hacker or some virus why only sent on email.. Suny.. told me that it can happen because of some facebook app too.. So I have deleted all facebook app from my facebook account which sharing the same email address..So I will wait, if something like this happen again, I have to take further more steps.
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
Hi inu... Those are really good articles... I read those.. And found that in those cases those viruses send too many spam messages to contact address... but in my case only one mail got send to my contacts... So far no other message got send.. I immediate changed my password when I found this thing.. I guess this will solve the problem.. Lets see.
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yaso4u
@yaso4u (502)
• India
18 Jan 12
Hi akp, Some where in some site you had shared your email and also password , or there is a possiblity you may use same password for signin different site. so they easily get your pass word. Only remedy is quickly change your password ASAP. Hope you will get out it very soon.
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naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
Hope so.. Its happened only one time .. I never share my email password with anyone. And also I used to keep different password for important sites like mails and other important site.. so there is no chance of it.. but any way I already changed my password, and hope there will be no problem in future.
shaieen
@shaieen (257)
• Philippines
18 Jan 12
I had my account like that too. What I did was changed my password into a much complicated one, like having Uppercases, symbols and words not in the dictionary. I think it was hacked or some internet virus that crawl into mail accounts(especially Yahoo!).
naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
18 Jan 12
I have changed my password too.. Hope I will not face something like this again.
Devilova
@Devilova (5392)
• Indonesia
18 Jan 12
There couple possibility for that and this is my opinion. You use a same password for your email and facebook.So when you use an applications like networkedblog, they will stole both of it. And or you use a same password for your email and other site that you have joined. Never use a same password for your email password and other site, even the Paypal.
naruto
@akp100 (13647)
• India
19 Jan 12
But I am having no problem in my facebook account. Its working fine like normal. And also I haven't joined any apps in facebook in last 6 months. But still I changed mail password and deleted all app from facebook.. Let's see what happened.. Thanks for the info.