Weird Emails from Myself

maximaz

maximaz

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I encountered something really weird. Today, I log into my hotmail account and see two emails from myself, that I never sent.

Not only that, the emails had some old Word content that I deleted a long time ago.

Both emails were read, as in, alrady clicked on. WTF is going on? Does anyoe have any idea what this could be?
 
Maybe your inbox is organized backwards by date? Might be looking at old emails you sent to yourself?

If not check the dates they were sent. Were you by chance drunk/high at the time? Happens all the time, expect in my case I send those to my co-workers.
 
They were sent today. I looked at the date right away. I don't get drunk or high anymore so that couldn't have been it, unless I got up in my sleep, in the middle of the night, and did it. It wasn't me for sure.
 
Slaughter Manslaught said:
My father once received a e-mail, the time of the e-mail was 1st september. This happened in August 20th. Go figure.
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You suspect some form of time travel?
Sending messages back through time through the Internet?
 
The weirdest thing about this is that the content was deleted a long time ago and I'm pretty sure it was under a password protected MS Word file. I think I'm going to reformat before some weirder shit happens.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Slaughter Manslaught said:
My father once received a e-mail, the time of the e-mail was 1st september. This happened in August 20th. Go figure.
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You suspect some form of time travel?
Sending messages back through time through the Internet?
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:lol:

I often talk with those that suspect something not so far off quite frequently.
 
Btw, OP.

Never trust the sender to be who it says.

It is beyond easy to make an email appear to have originated from wherever you want.

I used to receive dozens of emails a day from 'myself', but of course they were not, they just inserted my email address into the "sender" field.
 
k9wazere said:
It is beyond easy to make an email appear to have originated from wherever you want.
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and just as easy as to make it say whatever date you want it to. :)
 
It's just one or two months ago, when I got a e-Mail from the year 2001.
 
it could also have been an email of yours that your ISP/Email provider was having an issue and they were either restoring a server or someone elses mailbox and your emails got mixxed up in it.
 
TheWesDude said:
it could also have been an email of yours that your ISP/Email provider was having an issue and they were either restoring a server or someone elses mailbox and your emails got mixxed up in it.
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E-mail getting mixed up is not possible. If his e-mail provider was doing maintenance I can't see why they would have to restore any e-mail let alone only two messages.

I think in all likelihood those messages originated from changes the OP. Perhaps he switched to IMAP and moved his POP mail to his new IMAP folder thus breaking any date stamps (assuming he was using a Microsoft client).

He could have forgot that a e-mail client was set up on a computer at one point using this e-mail address and had those messages in the OUT box until someone opened that client up and that mail was delivered.

Maybe the messages in question were saved as "drafts" and through the flick of a few mouse clicks wound up sending those drafts to himself or moving them to the INBOX.

There is no logic here suggesting the account in question was compromised. Were that the case, why would only two messages be amiss? Sure there is logic behind this if one were to follow the Dane Cook theory of breaking and entering and adding something instead of taking; but, I just don't see that to be the case.

Reformatting ones computer will not help either. If one does suspect being compromised then virus scans and changing your password(s) should be the appropriate course of action unless you feel that your anti viral software is failing you.
 
Thanks for the help guys.
Just wondering, how often do you format your drives, if ever?
 
maximaz said:
Thanks for the help guys.
Just wondering, how often do you format your drives, if ever?
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As little as possible.

To upgrade OS; to recover from a really nasty virus which would take forever to clean; after installing new hardware (something major like a mobo change would do it).

And I only ever format the OS partition, never the whole drive, ever.
 
Maximaz,

I can't help but wonder if by "format" you might actually mean defragment. Formatting a disc is not a maintenance process. Defragging is a maintenace process, and you should defrag once a month or so as a general rule.

misteryo
 
i try to defrag at least once a week for all my drives

format?

if i ever format a HD more than once, its something special.

i dont even format to install new OSes... i know how to install them without formatting.
 
Misteryo said:
Maximaz,

I can't help but wonder if by "format" you might actually mean defragment. Formatting a disc is not a maintenance process. Defragging is a maintenace process, and you should defrag once a month or so as a general rule.

misteryo
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I do mean format. I'm tempted to completely remove all the crap I have on my computer, including possible viruses, and start clean. I was wondering if it would get Vista working like it should again (or maybe it works as well as it ever will) and any spyware I might have hidden somewhere. I do defragment about once a week.
 
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