flynnibus
Premium Member
Certainly the safe thing - but tracking down the source is important to understand why it happened to you, especially if you felt you were being safe prior. Bounce messages can simply follow forged headers too. It's something I could help better with if I were local, but doing so over forum messages is painful for everyone involved
Usually a comparison between 'good' mail and suspect mail looking at headers is a good start to see where the mail actually originated from and seeing if you are just being forged, if it was just your account that was compromised in a way, or if its your actual machine that was compromised as well.
I asked the question initially because its very very common for someone's emails to get harvested, and then the contacts taken from there or a contact list (through another hole). Spammers then send spam from other places, and just forge the mail to make it look like it came from you.. and send the mail to contacts harvested in the same place. Something that can be done entirely externally and since people are more willing to read and click on messages in mail from someone they know.. it has higher success rates.
So it's possible when you have a circle of people.. say A, B, and C. That the mail comes from 'A' and everyone thinks 'A' was hacked, when it might have been B or C that were actually compromised in a way. Lots of ways people make messes of other people's stuff
