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I have 4 e-mail accounts that I use from the same pc. when I log on to outlook express V6 e-mails are downloaded for all the accounts at once.
one of my accounts has just received an e-mail from one of the other accounts. the problem is that i have not sent the e-mail. it does not appear in my sent box. the only thing i can think of is that it was sent months perhaps even as long ago as some 2 1/2 or more years ago hence why i cant find it in the sent box for the last day or two. This has happened once before but can not understand it. it's a bit scary.
Any thoughts? could it just be an e-mail stuck in cyber world?

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Does the message contain any personal information, the sort of information that isn't retrievable from any of your e-mail accounts?

My guess would be spam and maybe someone has gotten a hold of your contacts via that account. Are any of your other e-mail addresses stored as contacts on that e-mail?

Or spam in a different way where the sender has impersonated you (by aliasing their e-mail address to yours). In other words, it was sent from a different e-mail address but made to appear that it came from you.
 
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Hi,
Thank you for the reply but I'm not very good with pc's so I'm not sure I follow.
sorry could you explain a little more about
"Does the message contain any personal information, the sort of information that isn't retrievable from any of your e-mail accounts? ....... gotten a hold of your contacts via that account. Are any of your other e-mail addresses stored as contacts on that e-mail?


How do I check if other e-mail addresses are stored as contacts? Also the e-mail that was sent contained a picture that I reconize as being one of mine.

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He means, what is in the email?
 
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sorry still dont understand. there is a picture as an attachment wioth the e-mail, a picture that i reconize as mine. having double checked the e-mail it looks to be sent from me to my daughter and copied to my wife. the daughters e-mail is on a different pc

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To be put simply, "what does the message in the e-mail read"?

You say you recognise a picture that was attached, "recognise" isn't really a strong word in this context. Is it yours from one of your pc's or is it not?
 
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sorry.
The picture is one of mine, it is of my daughter. The e-mail reads :-

The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:

TKD medal 2.JPG


Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent
sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail
security settings to determine how attachments are handled.
 
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Got a few questions:

1. The disclaimer, "Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail
security settings to determine how attachments are handled.", is that the same disclaimer someone would see at the bottom of a message from you?

2. Was that e-mail saved as a draft or had you sent that e-mail before?

3. Could it be someone in your family that's playing pranks? :)
 
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vbaInet said:
Got a few questions:

1. The disclaimer, "Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail
security settings to determine how attachments are handled.", is that the same disclaimer someone would see at the bottom of a message from you?

2. Was that e-mail saved as a draft or had you sent that e-mail before?

3. Could it be someone in your family that's playing pranks? :)
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Are you sure you never sent this email in the past? It may be an issue with how it downloaded into Outlook and maybe placed the wrong date/time stamp. I've had this happen in the past, so I try to avoid Outlook wherever possible.
 
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And then again, a virus will many times send things out from either your own machine or from someone else's who has a virus on their machine and then sends to everyone in their address book but spoofed to look like it is coming from your machine.
 
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boblarson said:
And then again, a virus will many times send things out from either your own machine or from someone else's who has a virus on their machine and then sends to everyone in their address book but spoofed to look like it is coming from your machine.
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Yes, but it doesn't sound like the case here. Most viruses won't just send a random picture and by chance, only send it to your wife and daughter. They aren't usually that choosy when looking through your address book. ;)
 
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Vassago said:
Yes, but it doesn't sound like the case here. Most viruses won't just send a random picture and by chance, only send it to your wife and daughter. They aren't usually that choosy when looking through your address book. ;)
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So it is clear that it was sent from his computer and not from his wife's or daughter's computer to his? I have seen some pretty strange things that have been done with viruses before so I am just throwing the possibilities out there because it is good to not overlook anything, including the ludicrous. :)
 
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Vassago said:
Are you sure you never sent this email in the past?
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Yes it was me. I'm sorry if it has caused you any harm or distress smiler44:eek: But seriously there are "machines" built to impersonate.
 
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hope i can cover all the questions.
Don't know if the e-mail was ever saved as a draft.
Don't know if e-mail was ever sent before
security setting, Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail.
No idea what someone would see if i sent them an e-mail
posititve that no one in family being silly
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Well, you not knowing the first two doesn't help narrow things down :)

Send yourself and e-mail from you and look at the bottom to see if it appears.

Do you use hotmail with any of your accounts?
 
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Can you send the email header information (complete)?
 
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