Lee, Thank goodness you are in "the know". Harry has beat me to the punch, but I not only want to know how this is done, is it program specific? If I normally use Apple's mail and if I am using the digitally signed mail and then use Gmail one day do the signatures cross over to the other account or do I have to create these with each mail account I use?
Thanks for your help. John On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Steven Brown <sbrown1...@att.net> wrote: > >> John Robinson says he received about 7 different e-mails from me this >> morning! >> >> Apparently my e-mail has been hacked. It seems like it happens about once a >> year or so. >> >> What can I do? > > There's nothing you can do about it. Nobody has to hack your account to send > an email that looks like it came from you. I can send an email that looks > like it came from Barack Obama or the Queen of England, assuming I can find > their email addresses. All you have to do is know how to set the From: header > in email, and this is not difficult at all. It's no harder than putting a > fake return address on plain old paper snail mail. > > Spammers have been doing this for years, and it does not necessarily mean > they've compromised anyone's account. > > That's why I digitally sign much of my email. That can’t be faked by any > method I know. Spammers can fake my address, but my signature shows whether > it really came from me. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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