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About Joerg Droege
Expertise
I did an education as a Management Assistant in Informatics, I am using the Opera browser since year 2000 & the M2 email client since 2004. I will do my best to answer also other email related questions and email client settings related, etc. But please no Outlook or Outlook Express questions, since I do not use that. (But if you really want to ask in that field, I will sure do try my best to answer your question nicely and correctly anyway :) ). This includes but is not limited to web based email or whatever comes to your mind.

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I am a Management Assistant in Informatics education which was done under the control of the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry). And had to solve various PC, email and other related problems. Using computers since 1990.

 
   

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Email - email acct hijacked?


Expert: Joerg Droege - 2/18/2008

Question
I am getting commercial emails from myself and I havent sent any...does that mean someone has hijacked my account or controlling my computer somehow?  I got rid of all the spyware on it....thanks

Answer
H ithere Dennis!

Thanks for your question!

This is very unlikely, as it's easily possible to manipulate the standard email header so that info of spam emails is always faked.

You have to check the FULL header information, this will tell you the real data. Every client and email service allows viewing the full header, but only few people read them and spammers know that and take advantage of this!


Hope this helps!
All the best!
Bye!
Joerg

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