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Spoofed e-mail?
This past Wednesday night I received 31 returned e-mails from Mail Administrator, all at 10:46 PM in one batch. Friday morning at 10:46 AM I received 13 more. I've had my e-mail spoofed before but not like this! I tried to trace the source from the headers and it looks like one batch came from Belarus (Rue Beltelecom), and the other maybe India (Tata Teleservices). None of it was in my sent mail folder so I guess it couldn't have come from my computer ( some worm or Trojan horse or something)? These are just the ones that came back undeliverable for some reason, I'm sure there were a lot more that were sent. Is there anything I need to do about this?
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Reset your password ASAP!
Besides that, if you use any email clients, and suspect malware of some type, run a Malware scan like Malwarebytes.
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DerrickW
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Hello Jhal5,
The first thing you would need to do in these situations is to reset the password so that whatever has access no longer can get into your email. I would also recommend doing a system scan for viruses, bots, trojans, malware, etc. If you are connected to a router you should scan all computers on the network.
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Jhal5
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Thank you both for those quick replies! I think I will take those precautions now!
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