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Are you sure they actually logged in to your account to send spam (are the spam emails visible in your sent folder), or could it be that someone is just spoofin

by 0x0 10y ago

Are you sure they actually logged in to your account to send spam (are the spam emails visible in your sent folder), or could it be that someone is just spoofing the SMTP MAIL FROM / email From: header?

cptskippy 10y ago
Given Yahoo's security policies, whose to say someone wasn't just sending it from Yahoo's SMTP servers without any access to user's email accounts?
Dr0Dre 10y ago
I had the same issue, I could see the email sent from sent folder. This happened about year ago and I was very surprised.
alyandon 10y ago
As far as I can tell it wasn't someone spoofing my email address. Emails were sent to people on my contact list and the numerous bounce messages to contacts that no longer had valid email addresses confirmed the origin of the traffic.
- Buge 10y ago
  It's possible that a contact of yours was compromised, and that contact had many contacts in common with you. And then they spoofed your address.
  - alyandon 10y ago
    That's a good theory but in my case the sets of common contacts would be almost nil for that account.