I just got SPAM from myself

[2point0]

I got a spam prescription meds email and the sender listed was one of my other email accounts. I checked the "sent messages" for the alternate account and it doesn't show any sent mail, but when I hit reply to the spam message the alternate email account received the reply.

Anybody have an idea of what's going on?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[2Dfan]

lol

 

[drombat]

The machines are starting to act. It's all part of their master plan to dose people into submission. It is absolutely imperative that we know what medications they were trying to feed you.

 

[eek]

Your email addy is compromised, simple. Spyware/virus/wutever got to your email and is sending spam using your email address to everyone on your addresslist.

If you have a legit version of Windows, get a beta version of Windows Defender (free). Works well.

If you are going to browse for porn / warez, use Firefox.

 

[td741]

I got a spam prescription meds email and the sender listed was one of my other email accounts. I checked the "sent messages" for the alternate account and it doesn't show any sent mail, but when I hit reply to the spam message the alternate email account received the reply.

Anybody have an idea of what's going on?

Most likely:
Spammers got your e-mail address on a list (or generated it by random and its coincidence) and are simply fudging it in the spam's e-mail header just to make it look like someone legitimate sent it. You can try and look inside the e-mail's header and see if you spot any clues that it hasn't been sent by your computer.

 

[Lee Gray]

you dang spammer

 

[aria]

Most likely:
Spammers got your e-mail address on a list (or generated it by random and its coincidence) and are simply fudging it in the spam's e-mail header just to make it look like someone legitimate sent it. You can try and look inside the e-mail's header and see if you spot any clues that it hasn't been sent by your computer.

Yep, my thoughts exactly/

 

[2point0]

Thanks for all the help.

The meds were the run of the mill V1 AGGra, ClALIs, Xyprecksa, VaIium, meridida, etc. Can you determine the machines' motives with that info?

I hope the two people in my address book forgive me. Luckily I don't use that email account much.

Most likely:
Spammers got your e-mail address on a list (or generated it by random and its coincidence) and are simply fudging it in the spam's e-mail header just to make it look like someone legitimate sent it. You can try and look inside the e-mail's header and see if you spot any clues that it hasn't been sent by your computer.

I tried to look, but there wasn't much there and usually when I hit "reply" the real email address shows up either in the address line or in the body of the reply where the sender's address is, but it didn't, so I was confused. Also, there's no sent mail from the yahoo account that I received the spam from.

I used to run a anti-spyware program daily, but stopped a while ago. I guess I have to start again. I also use firefox 99% of the time, but some sites don't work well with it, so I have to use IE.

Again thanks for all the help.