Anyone else have their email get spoofed?

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Yeah, that happened to me earlier. I thought at first someone hacked into my account, so I changed the password and set up the 2-step verification. Still received a couple more after that, so it's definitely spoofing, not the account being compromised.


This is a very common tactic for spammers. Email is kinda broken in the sense that when you receive a message it's hard to verify that message actually originated from the address it claims to, because the sending address is an arbitrary part of the message. The only reason this isn't usually a big issue is because when you send a message to someone you can be reasonably certain it'll arrive to the correct person. This is why spam is so common, you don't even need to actually 'have' addresses to send from; you can just send them as having been sent from anywhere you want.


no, but recieve newspaper are annoying to mark as spam.

rarely i see it happen, but im still mad that all of my emails from magix are marked as spam