Spam Emails From My Own Email

I keep getting emails from my own email they appear to be from Brazil. (i've seen emails in my spam that are from a .br extension and look similar to this) This email account is just forwarded to my new email and not used to actually email anything, just for old accounts. I have changed the password on that account at least 10 times, the emails don't stop even after i change the password so i'm assuming it's cloned. Just want these emails to stop. Any help would be appreciated!

 

Is there an "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the emails? If you unsubscribe, they have to honor that request and the emails will stop. It may take a few days though and you may still get emails from their "partners". You'll have to unsubscribe from each one.

 

The emails say they are from ME and arent in English they do not appear to be a subscription. There is one of the emails attached to the first post.

 

I have changed it both on my iPhone and Mac once before a reformat of the operating system due to a motherboard replacement and once after

 

Again I have changed the password numerous times, a couple times from my iPhone and a couple times from the same Mac, but the Mac was completely reformatted from the first time I changed the password on it until the last time.

 

I have used nothing but apple products for 4 years, and I don't believe you are understanding the issue anyway so I will look for help elsewhere, thanks.

 

I gave you an answer, and you got "mad" you did not read my original post that this email is FORWARDED there is no password to it in ANY of my machines. I was telling you that from safari on my Mac machines I changed the password on the hotmail website then forwarded the account again and logged out. No syncing and no pcs involved. I believe you made an assumption and then got angry because your assumption was wrong. I have had very good luck with this forum in years past with obscure problems but after this I assure you I will never be back. So I hope you have a great day and can go help some others.

 

As I read it it was her hotmail account that was spoofed so the way to stop any more arriving would have to be to block the sender. For that she would probably need to establish the sender's true address. I have no idea how she would do that on a mac but it's easy enough in Thunderbird through View Source. Changing passwords is pointless in this situation.

 

I wouldn't think so. Ideally she needs to block the sender on the hotmail (Outlook.com) server if that's possible. If not, and if she wants this forwarded mail on her iPhone, she will have to find a way to block it there too. I don't think there would be any direct syncing of email between PC and iPhone.

 

Go to a public library or internet cafe, or a friend/relative with a PC/Laptop and change your password and security verification details for the mail account in question. That is, use a system that you have NEVER used before.
You should have done that to start with, and from reading this thread you have never answered that question clearly.
But saying you are going to cut your nose off just to spite your own face is just silly. It's your issue and not anyone's here.

 

Is there a way to show full headers in Hotmail? That would show where the Spam originated and that sender could be blocked (but, she'll probably never read what was posted after her last reply).

 

Her old hotmail account has already been spoofed Max so no point in changing password again. Only answer is blocking the sender somehow.

 

I agree 100% - the very first thing that should have been done is a complete password and security verification data change from a completely different system.

 

I'm not wrong at all dr m, you are not taking on board what the OP has told you in #11 -

this email is FORWARDED there is no password to it in ANY of my machines

These junk emails are arriving in her old hotmail account from a spoof address and being forwarded directly from there to her current email. There aren't any passwords involved in this at all.

 

It's a pity the OP has taken umbrage, I think we'd all like to know whether doing what you are recommending would do the trick. You are staff - can't you try to get her back aboard?

 

Dr.m I answered your original questions as directly as possible (to be honest you did not tell me what you needed as clearly as you thought you were) I just don't think we are on the same page and yes I was sent over from malware where I was told it was a software problem and I needed to post it here. I didn't see anymore responses after that.

I am not forwarding any email to any machine. I am forwarding my hotmail directly to my gmail account and then logging into my gmail account on my Mac and iPhone.

Guys this is a simple spoofed email, it says it comes to me from me, I don't want to block my own email but just didn't know if there was a way to fix it and not just keep sending it to spam. I googled it and it's a very common hotmail problem. I've had the account since 1996 and just didn't want to ditch it over something annoying.

I will Reread and try suggestions when I get off work.

Also thank you earthling for letting me know there were more posts.

 

Just remembered something, this is my xbox live account, it has a security code that's emailed/texted to you in order to access the account

 

And password to the hotmail account has been changed via my work pc now

 

Changed my gmail account password too from my work pc, will change my system password on my Mac when I get home

 

She has now done everything you asked of her. We shall only know whether that was the answer if it stops the junk.

@OP - pls let us know how this goes.

 

well, i don't know if anything can be done to stop it, once spammers have your email address, they will always have it. even if you delete that email account, you might still receive spam where the 'from' address is your deleted old account. with spam, the from address is pretty meaningless since it is either made up or is taken from a list of email addresses that have been harvested.

i still get spam emails from myself. in the old days of the internet, before i knew better, i used to have my email address in plain text on my personal site. i changed that a long time ago, but once they have your email address, you just learn to ignore and delete.

over the years, there have been several odd things that i don't know what to do about, because i am not sure if anything can be done.

when i first bought a mac, i also got an apple id and email account. i don't use that email address except for some apple notifications, so i check it every few months. one time i looked and there was ticket confirmations for an international airplane flight for some one i never heard of. so you check bank statements, credit card statements, email settings, and everything was as it should be. some one just used my email address for ticket confirmations.

these last 2 months, i have been sending myself 'scanned images', with the implication that the scan to email function was used to send me an attachment. this email address is a purely forwarding address with no associated mailbox or web mail functionality. so some one is crafting spam with my email in both the to and from address, with an attachment, hoping i will open it. i just ignore and delete.

now something i have no idea what to do about... this has been going on for about 1 year now. the us postal service has email notifications for package tracking, so you can track where your package is and when it gets delivered. some one started using my email address for package tracking notifications. the real odd thing is that the package destination is to some where in the same zip code that i live in. again.... check bank statements, credit card statements, email settings, and i also have aggressive credit monitoring. and everything is fine. some one is just using my email address for the notifications. i contacted the security division of the us postal service about this, and never heard back from them. if these notices would include who shipped the package, i would just contact the company about the wrong email address being used, but the notices only include information about the package's journey. there is no information in these email notices about who shipped it or where it ends up. so... it's like... what do you do. it's just an email and the financial side of my life is clean... so... i don't know what to think. i've been getting these notices several times a month for about a year now. i'm sure mail fraud is involved some how, but there is no way for me to prove anything. what is mildly amusing is when this person ships stuff to themselves, since the post office in my zip code is both the point of origin and destination.

anyway, i know this does not help the original poster's problem. but misery loves company, so i thought i would share.

good luck with it!

 

Got home last night, changed password on my Mac, restarted logged back in and then relogged into my gmail account and...

At around 11 last night got another email, just marked it spam and went to bed...

Didn't fix it

 

Nope never ever click on anything that I wasn't expecting or didn't send myself

 

I know that receiving junk emails supposedly from yourself is a fairly common problem but I've never actually experienced it myself, so a bit hampered here. As I said back in #14, blocking would be the only way to stop them but at that point I wasn't sure how you were reading your mail, i.e. in an email client or in a browser. Now we know it's a browser you could temporarily stop forwarding and check the hotmail account periodically. When you receive another of these emails select it, click the ... on the toolbar and click Create Rule. There are a number of ways there you might be able to filter these messages out and automatically delete or junk them. As you are currently forwarding you are probably familiar with rules.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Block the IP that these are coming from.
1. Open one of the emails and on the right, aside of reply, click on the down arrow that stands for More Actions.
2. Click on View Message Source which is close to the bottom of the choices.
3. You get a popup box that shows the path this email takes to get to you. About halfway down through all the verbiage and right before the email message you will see X-Originating IP followed by a 4 digit IP. This is the IP you want to block.

4. After you copy the IP, you can close the popup box. Next click on the Gear icon (top right) and select Options.
5. Scroll down to junk email and select the first item: Blocked Senders.
6. See if the IP pastes into the box. I didn't realize it says sender or domain. In my other webmail addresses, I can block by IP.


If you can't paste the IP in, I'll edit my directions.

 

The problem with blocking by IP is that many ISPs issue a new IP for each session, mine does for example. Using a rule it should be possible to be more accurate. That can be done in hotmail (Outlook.com) and/or in Gmail too I would think.

 

My directions were for outlook.com because hotmail directs to outlook now.
You start with this google link

Code:

https://www.hotmail.com/

and it sends me to outlook.

 

Pardon me if this has been answered/addressed...
decemberfal
Are you getting the emails from your email address or your name?

 

@Eldon it says my name and email.

After reporting it Tuesday night I just saw one in my junk email.

 

As Earthling said in post #14, your email address has been spoofed. Have a look over here to 'block the emails from yourself'.
http://email.about.com/od/Outlook.c...-a-Sender-by-Email-Address-in-Outlook-com.htm
All those spam emails will automatically be discarded and save you the trouble of emptying the Junk folder.