Change your password!

Poster, do as advised on this forum ASAP before your email address is used for what will land you in prison.

Yamakuza gave the best INSIGHT to this problem. U do not need to change ur pwd. If u want to test what is going on, pls drop your email and I will send mail out of your box, reply with your email and do wonders too. The secret is keep your email to yourself and your partners only dont liter your id around and everywhere. But u may want to try me and I will be glad. Thank you.
By the way have you co-forward your email into another email, best solution so far.

gigabytes:

Yamakuza gave the best INSIGHT to this problem. U do not need to change your pwd. If u want to test what is going on, pls drop your email and I will send mail out of your box, reply with your email and do wonders too. The secret is keep your email to yourself and your partners only dont liter your id around and everywhere. But u may want to try me and I will be glad. Thank you.
By the way have you co-forward your email into another email, best solution so far.

@gigabytes
Simply modifying the headers doesn't mean its being sent from one's mail box (Spoofing). Same way you modify headers, is the same way I would tell you the originating mail server.

What the OP mentioned is "mails being sent from his box", translating to "he has items in his sent folder". That which you propose doing won't leave any item in the sent folder.

Prove me wrong, here's my email: sleekmaliq@yahoo.com (BTW, its a disposable address)

For those worried about key-loggers, try virtual keyboards! (and i don't refer to that factory shipped with windows o!)

Maleeq:

@gigabytes
Simply modifying the headers doesn't mean its being sent from one's mail box (Spoofing). Same way you modify headers, is the same way I would tell you the originating mail server.

What the OP mentioned is "mails being sent from his box", translating to "he has items in his sent folder". That which you propose doing won't leave any item in the sent folder.

Prove me wrong, here's my email: sleekmaliq@yahoo.com  (BTW, its a disposable address)

For those worried about key-loggers, try virtual keyboards! (and i don't refer to that factory shipped with windows o!)

virtual keyboard will only work if the key-logger is part of peripheral device but if its in form of software then virtual key-board will not help.

@Maleeq.

The guy did not say there are messages in the sent folder

Pls i don't know how to stop this. Emails are originating from my yahoo account and sent to out to different email addresses. What can i [img]http://do to stop this? I got to know when i see failed mails in my inbox and even some being sent to my other mail box.[/img]

Anyway, what I will do now is to send mail from with your id and I intentionally make sure u have mailer daemon (failed mails) and will send you a mail then one to myself.

@poster,
Let us see the message that is being sent from your email address.
There could still be more to it than what has been suggested so far.
There is something called[b] spoofing[/b]. This does not need to gain access into your email
but can do a lot of damaging work

@justwise

Check ur box and prnt scrn it for us to see.

gigabytes:

@justwise

Check your box and prnt scrn it for us to see.

There is nothing in my inbox yet.

Last year i was using ( sukulukugbambosay) but i changed it last year use something stroger than d[i]i[/i]ck it will work,

@gigabytes

Ok, perhaps I implied the poster's statement wrong.

BUT, i still dey wait my mail o!

Dont panic, Ive suffered same in d last 1 month. U ve opened a mail from a friend which led you to a website, usually a wealth creation type, afterwhich d site automatically gains access to your address book only. It really has nothing 2do wit ur password. U may however wish 2change ur password 2an alpha-numeric type, but the solution is to simply avoid openin those related mails (DELETE THEM) which normally comes from a trusted friend. Ur friend may not even b aware dat he sent u any mail & d mails cant b traced from d sent folder. When I got d first salvo, I tot my friend meant well 4me, bt I didnt respond; after d 2nd mail I called him 2verify & he told me he didnt send any mail. From then, I started noticin several delivery failures and worse still my email was blocked, so I cudnt send any warnin 2 my friends.

you may be the victim of a 'spoofing' attack. Spoofing means faking the return address on outgoing mail to hide the true origin of the message.
When you send a letter through the post, you generally write a return address on the envelope so the recipient can identify the sender, and so the post office can return the mail to the sender in the event of a problem. But nothing prevents you from writing a different return address than your own; in fact, someone else could send a letter and put your return address on the envelope. Email works the same way. When a server sends an email message, it specifies the sender, but this sender field can be forged. If there is a problem with delivery and someone forged your address on the message, then the message will be returned to you, even if you weren't the actual sender.

If you've received a reply to a message that wasn't sent from your address, there are two possibilities:
1. The message was spoofed, forging your address as the sender.
2. The original sender used your address as a reply-to address so that responses would be sent to you.

Neither of these possibilities indicates that your account was hacked or compromised, but if you're concerned that your account may have been compromised, you can check recent access to your account in you account log.

ahmsta:

you may be the victim of a 'spoofing' attack. Spoofing means faking the return address on outgoing mail to hide the true origin of the message.
When you send a letter through the post, you generally write a return address on the envelope so the recipient can identify the sender, and so the post office can return the mail to the sender in the event of a problem. But nothing prevents you from writing a different return address than your own; in fact, someone else could send a letter and put your return address on the envelope. Email works the same way. When a server sends an email message, it specifies the sender, but this sender field can be forged. If there is a problem with delivery and someone forged your address on the message, then the message will be returned to you, even if you weren't the actual sender.

If you've received a reply to a message that wasn't sent from your address, there are two possibilities:
1. The message was spoofed, forging your address as the sender.
2. The original sender used your address as a reply-to address so that responses would be sent to you.

Neither of these possibilities indicates that your account was hacked or compromised, but if you're concerned that your account may have been compromised, you can check recent access to your account in you account log.

from where did you copy and paste this?

www.google.com/m?client=ms-opera-mini&channel=new&q=site:google.com+email+spoofing+attack

yes.

missed the qoute

Don't know how my chat box contains indonesian conversations with a lot of contacts. I've never used the chat func of yahoomail.