[Hidden-tech] email spoofing

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:30:12 -0500 Jonathon Podolsky <producer at wholehealthexpo.com> wrote:

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> I use gmail for email. How can I stop/prevent spoofing of my account?

You can't.  The E-Mail protocol (RFC822) allows setting the message headers to 
anything.  Modern spam filters check to be sure the From: (or Sender:) headers 
make sense given the Received: headers.

What is happening is that the spoofers / spammers are sending E-Mail with a 
'bogus' From: header (one that has your E-Mail) from a server 'designed' to 
send spam, typically a hapless hacked mess-windows machine that has been 
co-opted to be a spambot in a network of spambots.

> I have already changed my password, made sure forwarding is turned off, and
> made sure that it only connects on a secure browser address (htttps).
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> Jonathon
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