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#141036 27-Feb-2014 17:54

I have changed my email password 3 times in 3 days and still get emails with both the from and to addresses being mine. My email is accessed from both Telecom and 2degrees via Nokia mail. Is there anything I can do to route my mail differently. Both phones are Nokia. I have to try something.

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#995690 27-Feb-2014 17:57

Are these emails coming out of your account? Can you see sometihng in the SENT folder and more importantly, if you look at email headers do they show coming out of your email servers?

If not, then it's just someone spoofing your email address, not necessarily hijacking your account.

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#995697 27-Feb-2014 18:09

nothing in phone or fixed sent boxes. the headers show this .

Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO 190.253.0.123) (190.253.0.123)
by mta1005.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:19:19 +0000
Message-ID: <5DC7A8D50232BA7FE58AF72010985DC7@V857034BN>

I can include it all from one if you want more.

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#995710 27-Feb-2014 18:25

As above, it seems more like spoofing than account hijack. I gather this is an @xtra.co.nz address? Nothing you can do about it because spoofing doesn't have anything to do with your actual account.

It's kinda like posting a letter but putting someone else's address as the senders address. No one has taken over the senders house, just purporting it was sent from there.

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#995713 27-Feb-2014 18:31

it is an @xtra address. I have 3 in the account. All have been used for SPAM .One I have not used for at least 12months. This is why I think it is the account that has been hijacked. The looking at Nokia etc was just clutching at straws.

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#995714 27-Feb-2014 18:33

It's not necessarily hijacking. The latest round seems to be just spoofing, using emails collected in previous rounds.

If you can post all the headers that would help a bit.

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#995726 27-Feb-2014 18:48

here is all of one.

From ********@xtra.co.nz Wed Feb 26 15:06:16 2014
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X-Apparently-To: ********@xtra.co.nz via 72.30.239.84; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:19:20 +0000
Return-Path: <********@xtra.co.nz>
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 190.253.0.123
Received-SPF: none (domain of xtra.co.nz does not designate permitted sender hosts)
X-YMailISG: 6SA.ICkWLDuahTPVBUNAv.X9.522m_T5zCEpXW9NyVsOfafJ
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h_UZ7scXzZK4dxIx1nDkMThzjcWyTKfo2htLI0CkVVIRBycs_Q--
X-Originating-IP: [190.253.0.123]
Authentication-Results: mta1005.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com from=xtra.co.nz; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=xtra.co.nz; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO 190.253.0.123) (190.253.0.123)
by mta1005.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:19:19 +0000
Message-ID: <5DC7A8D50232BA7FE58AF72010985DC7@V857034BN>
From: <********@xtra.co.nz>
To: <********@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Vacancy - apply online
Date: 26 Feb 2014 17:06:16 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994
Content-Length: 872

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#995747 27-Feb-2014 19:26

I have 10 more going back to noon yesterday (Wednesday) if you need anymore.

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#995748 27-Feb-2014 19:27

Looks like it is being sent from the IP, 190.253.0.123, is that a yahoo IP?

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#995750 27-Feb-2014 19:34

It's a Colombian IP address. I'd say it's just spoofing the address, not accessing the mailbox.

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#995751 27-Feb-2014 19:36

I have a bunch of customers with personal accounts that now impact on their commercial emails in the same boat, there are literally thousands of emails each day that our filters are now blocking.

These are all spoofed from somewhere that is not here. As I see it there is now nothing you can do, as mentioned once before, Yahoo and their national lead outlet (Xtra) should be charged for public nuisance for this whole sad mess.

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#995756 27-Feb-2014 19:59

freitasm: It's a Colombian IP address. I'd say it's just spoofing the address, not accessing the mailbox.

addresses not address. 3 email addresses in my account just happen to be selected and spoofed at the same time?
Possible but highly unlikely.

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#995760 27-Feb-2014 20:04

Sure can happen. Spammers send millions of emails every day and there was a series of Yahoo!Xtra addresses used in the last few months.

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#996280 28-Feb-2014 12:13

GEOMAX:
freitasm: It's a Colombian IP address. I'd say it's just spoofing the address, not accessing the mailbox.

addresses not address. 3 email addresses in my account just happen to be selected and spoofed at the same time?
Possible but highly unlikely.

You can check to see access to your account via: https://api.login.yahoo.com/login/history/

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#996300 28-Feb-2014 12:29

+1 that you're email accounts probably havn't been "hacked" but probably scrapped from another person's account that has been hacked, downloaded from a hacked database (inc. Yahoo/Xtra) or simply brute forced (guessed) and as others have said is now being used to spoof messages.

I'd recommend changing to another email provider (I.e Gmail) that actually employs Email Authentication (DKIM & SPF) to reduce the ability of 'hackers' to forge your mail.

See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_authentication

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#996421 28-Feb-2014 14:29

GEOMAX:
freitasm: It's a Colombian IP address. I'd say it's just spoofing the address, not accessing the mailbox.

addresses not address. 3 email addresses in my account just happen to be selected and spoofed at the same time?
Possible but highly unlikely.

Possible & VERY likely.
It happens all the time.

It wont be JUST your 3 email adresses, it will be a huge number of xtra email spoofed at the same time. Your email adresses are just part of the spammers list of emails adresses to use.

Its also common with email adresses NOT associated with xtra/yahoo . Its a scam thats been around a long time.

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