Finding out original source of e-mail
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Wed May 18 13:08:01 PDT 2005
jonvalverde at aol.com wrote:
> Thanks Alex....I have had a hacker problem lately and it is someone
> I'm pretty confident I know....I know they are very tech savy, so just
> trying to confirm.
Alex wrote:
>
> Looking at the first received line shows that FWM-D38.sysops.aol.com
> received the email from 204.214.222.51. Usually you would expect to
> see a name associated with that address, but in this case there isn't.
Is this *your* IP address, perhaps?
Given that this was sent using a WebMail interface it *could* have been
someone doing this by hand. I have no idea how easy AOL Webmail is to
spoof. Having said that, sending email to accounts which don't work is
a hallmark of spam bots.
If you have any passwords for your AOL account, I would suggest changing
them.
--Alex
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