Please shed any light you can, thanks.
Change your password
go outside and scream at the sky
Notify google that your account has been hijacked
Give up on the EVIL Google and get a new account somewhere else. Pay for privacy.
Your account has not be hacked. Your email however is being spoofed as you said. It’s easy to do (really easy) without access to your account. You can’t do much about the spoofing.
If your Account was actually hacked, I’m surprised the Hacker didn’t already change your Password.
If your son plays on Xbox I will focus on his use first...
Downloading things like pictures and even word files can have auto activate viruses in them that will capture your keystrokes. I am getting a feeling that you have something like this latently in your computer. Get a top flight virus checker like Webroot and scan the whole system first and see what if anything pops up. another thing to watch out for is logging into sites where you have to enter information, especially if you are using the same password for all of your accounts.
Change your password and then setup a new gmail account with a different password and do NOT hook it to you current one(s). Use that for all the site you visit and go from there. I would suggest that it is one of the 2 issues listed above where yo have voluntarily (or unknowingly) provided them with your password and now this whole fiasco has begun. Last tip, when you see an incoming e-mail that you do not recognize do NOT open it, that may send an auto read signal back to the sender telling them they have a live address. When you see it in your inbox select it and send it to spam folder, do not open it or read it. If you see something that is suspicious at the top of the e-mail where it tells you the sender name there is a little v looking symbol that when you click on it will tell you who the actual sender is, and if there is more than one mark it as spam.
And last tell your son to stop being so innocently careless if he is providing login information as part of his gaming experience, I went through this with my niece and her son who is big into threat and the problems were a regular occurrence
Let me know how it works out
This is the first time you’ve ever seen an email with a forged header?
I can send you an email that looks like it came from Donald Trump if you want an example of what’s going on here.
Have some PHP code you can run from any webserver:
$to = “mytarget@gmail.com“;
$subject = “This is Don”;
$txt = “This is a totally legit email from the President of the United States”;
$headers = “From: president@whitehouse.gov“;
mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers);
This just happened to me, too. I have never heard of spoofing before.
Enable two-factor and change your password. You also have to identify all financial accounts which had an email in your account, because that person could have reset passwords on those accounts using your email.
They got your ID and password for GMail. You have to scan all of your computers/devices for malware. Something keylogged you.
I feel your pain. I was once the recipient of spam, with my own business email address as sender. I passed it to Corporate computer security.
OT. I have a Twitter account but rarely use it. The last time I logged on my default language had been changed to Hebrew and I was following Obama.
This has been happening to my Gmail account, too, just over the last couple of days.
Your 11 grandson is not being honest about where he has been on the internet. It’s not a big deal, but I would spend some time in his history.
Again, 11 year old kids are kids. Kids lie because they are kids.
Just a good opportunity for learning about the internet and life.
Part of your description leads me to think that you may have a virus or malware. Consider running an anti-virus and/or anti-malware program. Also run an registry cleaner after the others.
If you need recommendations;
anti-virus:
- Comodo
- Malwarebytes
anti-malware:
Spybot search and distroy
Registry cleaner
Eusing
Since the e-mails are in the sent folder, you weren’t spoofed, but either hacked or viruses. The e-mail came out of your account.
This could be due to direct compromise of your e-mail, or it could because a spambot virus is in your computer and is accessing mail the machine is logged into. I’d there is more than one account being used to send spam, and they have different passwords, it is probably the spambot virus.
Thanks to everyone sharing their knowledge and experiences.
You’re not only helping one user but many other viewers as well who have been hacked, infected, spoofed and who as I, do not yet possess a clear understanding of how exactly this incident can be described.