someone sent an email to me with my email address?

post Category: Accounts & Passwords — admin @ 3:24 pm — post
postSeptember 1, 2009


How can someone send an email to me with my address? Wouldn’t they need my password?
It was advertising, I am just wondering if someone has access to my whole account??

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Email forging is easy. You don’t need the password to send email from an email address. All you need is an smtp (simple mail transfer protocol) server. Before you send the email, you can edit the from address to whatever you want. You can change pretty much anything actually.

berticus_aurelius wrote on September 3, 2009 - 1:33 pm
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