have I been hacked? hotmail question

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Posts: 5,153
edited March 2007 in Technical Stuff and Help
the other day, in my hotmail in box, i got an email from MY email address but not my name...it was changed to another person's name. I immediately changed my password. the other day, I replied to him and said, "you hacked my account" and it came right back to me!

today I got home and checked my email and once again, same thing, it looks like junk mail sent by a company but with my email address. I went into options and changed the way I view headers and I can see their email address.

I have blocked them but do they really have access to my account or is it just fooling me? I've been through every screen in hotmail and I do not see how to report this person. Reporting it as junk just keeps it out of my in box. Should I report them to Microsoft? what's the email address?
it sounds like I've been "phished" and i thought changing your password solves that. i already did change my password once and it happened again.
9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
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  • Posts: 1,448
    I've had the same thing happen to me a couple of times.
    drivingrl: "Will I ever get to meet Gwen Stefani?"
    kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.

    Next!"
  • Posts: 5,153
    drivingrl wrote:
    I've had the same thing happen to me a couple of times.

    is everything ok though?
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Posts: 1,448
    iluvcats wrote:
    is everything ok though?


    As far as I know, yes. I haven't bothered to change my password yet.
    drivingrl: "Will I ever get to meet Gwen Stefani?"
    kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.

    Next!"
  • Posts: 125
    You can send mail from a third party and put anything you want in the "from" box. Thus you can send a message to someone that looks like it came from their own account. In fact, you can say it came from a fictional email or Microsoft if you wanted to. You should look for signs that someone is actually accessing your account, deleting messages or forwarding messages. As for where a message comes from, if they could actually determine that, spam would be a thing of the past.
  • Posts: 5,153
    BenInTacoma wrote:
    You can send mail from a third party and put anything you want in the "from" box. Thus you can send a message to someone that looks like it came from their own account. In fact, you can say it came from a fictional email or Microsoft if you wanted to. You should look for signs that someone is actually accessing your account, deleting messages or forwarding messages. As for where a message comes from, if they could actually determine that, spam would be a thing of the past.

    pretend this is me, how an email normally looks from me:
    Mary Smith <monkey15@hotmail.com>

    the spammers are sending mail to my in box like this
    Business Report <monkey15@hotmail.com> with the hotmail account lit up in blue

    when I replied, "you are hacking my account", it came right back to me in my inbox. Yes I know exactly who it is by changing my message header filter under options in hotmail. I sent them an email yesterday.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Posts: 587
    edited November 2012
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    Post edited by DinghyDog on
  • Posts: 5,153
    this person who sends out emails as me is sick. he won't give up. from my message header settings, i determined where he was writing from...
    i unsubscribed by emailing the place, then i blocked that site. (hey i'm working on cancelling this email but i have many things i've ordered thru it, so it is lots of notifications and changes!)
    meanwhile I got the same looking email once again the next day....thru the message header, I could see his hotmail address and i blocked him....i typed his ip address in on google and his ip is on a black list.
    what a psycho!
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Posts: 94
    You would have better luck ignoring the emails and just marking them as spam. By replying you only confirm that you do check and use the email account that it's sent to. Do not reply to spammers.

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