Emails from me to me - only they're NOT!

I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.

I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
this kind of thing happening.

I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."

Anyone offer any suggestions?

Cheers
Steve

"80/20" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
>
> I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
> this kind of thing happening.
>
> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."
>
> Anyone offer any suggestions?

Contact your ISP and tell them whats happing..




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80/20 wrote:

> I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
>
> I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
> this kind of thing happening.
>
> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."
>
> Anyone offer any suggestions?

Bear in mind that anyone can send email "From:" any address they want to,
unless SPF has been implemented. But, the fact that you can't log into your
account does sound a bit suss.

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
80/20 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
>
> I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
> this kind of thing happening.
>
> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."
>
> Anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Steve

This is one of the joys of spam! Spammers will hi-jack your email address
and send out emails which *appear* to come from you. Using your address when
sending *to* you is probably just a device to circumvent any spam detector
you may be using.

I don't understand what you mean about not being able to log on to your
account. You must be able to log on to Wanadoo's POP server - otherwise you
wouldn't know that you had received these emails?
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80/20 wrote:
> I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
>
> I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
> this kind of thing happening.
>
> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."
>
> Anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>

Sounds like someone has been using your domain name as the
sent from or reply to address

I run www.smoothchristmasradio.com station and over christmas
I kept getting lots of angry replies telling to quit it with
the spam!

Not a lot you can do about it I'm afraid, unfortunatly though
it means your email address ends up on spam filters

On 27 Apr, 16:47, "Roger Mills" <watt.ty...@googlemail.com> wrote:
SNIPPED
> I don't understand what you mean about not being able to log on to your
> account. You must be able to log on to Wanadoo's POP server - otherwise you
> wouldn't know that you had received these emails?
> --
> Cheers,
> Roger
> ______

Roger,
It's simple I've got more than one Wanadoo account and 'so far' only
one has been affected.
Having more than one allows me to log onto the internet that way.

Cheers
Steve

"alexd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> 80/20 wrote:
>
>> I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
>> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
>> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
>> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
>>
>> I've looked on Wanadoo/Orange website and cannot find any info about
>> this kind of thing happening.
>>
>> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
>> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."
>>
>> Anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Bear in mind that anyone can send email "From:" any address they want to,
> unless SPF has been implemented.

SPF is just used for scoring emails it does not by itself stop these types
of emails being received.

> I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
> inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
> The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
> return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.
> Anyone offer any suggestions?

Just a small one - check the headers and you'll find the true source
of the sender, which will almost certainly be a hijacked machine in a
botnet somewhere.

I've got a feeble attempt at describing how email hangs together on my
site at http://www.coreutilities.co.uk/phishing.html (I might even
have a few mistakes in there, i'm open to correction !)

One tiny note - Kaspersky detects the page as potentially malicious,
as I give an example of the displayed link differing from the actual
site it sends you to - it's a false positive and i've informed them,
but it would be hard to filter out "examples" as against true scam
attempts unless they nominated a redirect domain to be used.

> I have also tried to log into my account and it refuses saying "We
> didn't recognise your email address or password. Please try again."

This might just be their authentication server playing up - it
happens...

On 27 Apr 2007 08:08:43 -0700, "80/20" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

|!I am recieving emails to my Wanadoo email address that show up in my
|!inbox as from me, but clearly I wouldn't do that so what is going on?
|!The originating sender is clearly shown as my Wanadoo address, but the
|!return path is <(E-Mail Removed)>.

Someone is forging your email address, just a way of disguising the sender.
I get spam from my email address, quite regularly.

Think hard before you killfile yourself.
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Gordon Hudson wrote:

>> Bear in mind that anyone can send email "From:" any address they want to,
>> unless SPF has been implemented.
>
> SPF is just used for scoring emails it does not by itself stop these types
> of emails being received.

That would be a detail of the implementation of SPF, not SPF itself.

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