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Cheetah Designs

Cheetah Designs

Cheetah Designs

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Just got home from a restaurant to find a load of Mail Delivery Failures for an email I never sent to a load of email addresses:

Code: 
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     **some email**

Technical details of permanent failure: 
Message rejected.  See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69585 for more information.

----- Original message -----

MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.216.231.160 with SMTP id l32mr5668317weq.98.1289768783312;  Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:06:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.216.35.202 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:06:23 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:06:23 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Hi
From: **me**
To: **load of emails here**
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

http://phpmotion.com/cache/index.php

Just logged into gmail to find this:



What is going on? I use a safe password and am safe with all my accounts?

Thanks.
 
Cheetah Designs said:
Just got home from a restaurant to find a load of Mail Delivery Failures for an email I never sent to a load of email addresses:

Code: 
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     **some email**

Technical details of permanent failure: 
Message rejected.  See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69585 for more information.

----- Original message -----

MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.216.231.160 with SMTP id l32mr5668317weq.98.1289768783312;  Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:06:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.216.35.202 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:06:23 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:06:23 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Hi
From: **me**
To: **load of emails here**
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

http://phpmotion.com/cache/index.php

Just logged into gmail to find this:



What is going on? I use a safe password and am safe with all my accounts?

Thanks.
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Last week it was claiming someone from China had accessed my account, new password time!

Also there's no such thing as a safe password, only a slightly harder to crack password.
 
A spammer probably using your email address as a "From" address. Causing all his bounced emails to end up in your inbox, and making people think you're the spammer.

Have you got any e-enemies?
 
Emails come with "from" address, if someone is using yours (and they can as its just text), bounceed emails will come to you.
 
Yeah spoofing has been around for years so you're bound to encounter it at least a few times on your eTravels :p
 
My sig is the original item, everything else is inferior, although amusing :p
 
As a side note GMail (from experience a year ago, might have changed now) is really easy to access if the person whose account it is has an easy secret question. Used to be as daft as Mothers Maiden name or name of first teacher allowing you to reset the password...not great if you've got mates with a twisted sense of humour or a jilted girlfriend etc.

Poor security ftl!
 
Windle said:
Also there's no such thing as a safe password, only a slightly harder to crack password.
Click to expand...

I beg to differ. Most of mine comprise 32 randomly generated ASCII characters in the 31-128 range (where the website doesn't impose stupid and arbitrary restrictions on password complexity). I'd be surprised if that could be "cracked" in any useful timescale. I use KeePass (with KeePassDroid on my phone) to keep track of them.

For more commonly used sites like webmail I use a phrase of several words that have been jumbled up, combined, and re-split and had characters swapped for numbers/punctuation, so a dictionary attack is impossible.
 
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click the 'Details'link at the bottom of the page to see what IP addresses have recently accessed your account:

Last account activity: 44 minutes ago at this IP (xx.xxx.xx.xxx). -----> Details <-----
 
I had this last week, Came to log in and wanted my mobile to verify my account was my own. And when i logged in I had 4 attempts to send emails to people in my contact list. Just like the OPs message.

Password is officially changed ofcourse
 
In the four years that I have had a Gmail account - I have not yet come across this problem or being hijacked.

Then again - I regularly change my passwords for all my online accounts. :)
 
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