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Email hacking
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He didn't say he was receiving spam, he said spam was being sent from his email address.
At times I've gotten email alerts from Google whenever I'd logged into my gmail account from a different IP address than usual. OP, are you receiving any alerts such as these?
YOu can review your recent activity and logins, etc. I think this is the URL to do so: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
You can also switch to a 2-step verification process for logins -- you (1) enter a password and then (2) send a code from your phone:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744
YOu can review your recent activity and logins, etc. I think this is the URL to do so: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
You can also switch to a 2-step verification process for logins -- you (1) enter a password and then (2) send a code from your phone:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744
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Your account likely isn't being hacked. The from address is ridiculously easy to spoof, they're likely just spoofing your address to try to get around your spam filter.
Do you actually have copies of the spam messages sitting in your "sent" box on your gmail account? Or is someone just saying they received spam from your account?
If someone is claiming you sent them spam, get a copy of the message and look at the headers. The last "received" header will identify the server that received the mail and the machine the mail was received from. The other "received" headers will show the servers the message traveled though to reach the precipitant. So you should be able to figure out if the message was actually sent via your gmail account or not.
Yes it's from those that received the spam from my address and forwarded copy to me. It doesn't appear in my sent box though. Thanks.