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  1. Something quite strange happened. I was reading me emails, and noticed
    one from my mom. I opened it, and it had an attachment. The
    attachment was a pic of me, on my uni, which was taken by someone else
    last weekend. The only place I know to see this pic is in someone's
    photo album, in the gallery of this forum.

    I was curious about where she got it from, and I asked her about it.
    She said that she had not sent me an email lately, nor had she ever
    seen that pic.

    As far as I could tell, someone got into her account, and sent the
    email with attachment to me.

    Does that mean that someone has access to my mom's or my pc?
    Is this likely a hacker?
    Does anyone know anything about these things, or what I can do?

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  2. That's really strange. Do you live near her? Any sleep walking or binge
    drinking lately?😉

    Can you check the email, open the email's properties detail and see if
    the server pathway and the computer IP address are the same as from
    her normal emails.

    It's pretty easy to spoof a username and email address, so one of your
    buddies m ight be pulling your leg.

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  3. Either what podzol said, or maybe your mom left her account signed in,
    and somebody, maybe a close friend or relative was on it and sent a
    picture to you.

    Wait, what was the body of the message? or was there just an
    attachment?

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    Jerrick

    ~*~!I ride for Christ, Fun, Challenges, and a lot more, so leave
    me alone about it!~*~

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  4. I kinda think it was maybe someone who knows me screwin around.

    I also know that the security is not great on her pc.

    I'm not very knowledgable about pc's and internet..., so to me it's a
    real nogin scratcher.

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  5. I bet it is Brian and I sent him all the pics I took last weekend

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    I don't really speak english 🙁

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  6. while i could see myself finding that amusing, it was not me, and if you
    recall, that transfer of your pics never went through.

    i have absolutely no role in, or further knowledge of this mystery

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    Brian MacKenzie

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  7. Actually it's quite simple to make an email appear to have come from
    someone else. Spammers use that technique all the time. The displayed
    From: field can be replaced by the content embedded in the message
    headers. In other words, you tell the mail server to deliver a message
    to someone/from someone, but can choose to change what is actually
    displayed to the recipient when they retrieve it.

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  8. Trapper said:

    Actually it's quite simple to make an email appear to have come from
    someone else. Spammers use that technique all the time. The displayed
    From: field can be replaced by the content embedded in the message
    headers. In other words, you tell the mail server to deliver a message
    to someone/from someone, but can choose to change what is actually
    displayed to the recipient when they retrieve it.

    That being said, we checked my mom's account, and it also showed the
    email having been sent at the same time. Based on that, is what you're
    saying still possible?

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  9. Brian MacKenzie said:

    while i could see myself finding that amusing, it was not me, and if you
    recall, that transfer of your pics never went through.

    i have absolutely no role in, or further knowledge of this mystery

    Sure mankey...just like you had nothing to do with all my missing left
    socks.

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  10. Tim Morin said:

    Sure mankey...just like you had nothing to do with all my missing left
    socks.

    i needed padding in my cycling shorts

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    Brian MacKenzie

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  11. Tim Morin said:

    That being said, we checked my mom's account, and it also showed the
    email having been sent at the same time. Based on that, is what you're
    saying still possible?

    Well we're entirely off-topic now so one more reply can't hurt us. You
    say that you checked her account. Does that mean that there was a copy
    of the suspect email in the sent items folder? That would indicate
    that yes indeed it was sent from that system.

    You can also look at the message you received in your inbox. If you
    have MS Outlook, you can highlight the message, right mouse-click,
    select Options and at the bottom there is a section called Internet
    Headers. It is a map of where the email originated and the route it
    took to get to you. Compare the headers of the suspect message to a
    control message that you send from your Mom's system. I sent a sample
    to your PM. If the point of origin matches the suspect and the control
    message that you have sent from the same system then yes it came from
    her computer.

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  12. i can't wait for the 'oh ya, i emailed it to myself so i could look at
    it later'

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  13. Brian MacKenzie said:

    i needed padding in my cycling shorts

    I blew coffee out my nose when I read that.

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    'I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody
    tell you different' - Kurt Vonnegut
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  14. 1. Pad cycling shorts
    2. ???
    3 Profit!

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    mark williamson

    Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no
    pedals!
    Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
    Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
    Mark: My wheel has a wheel!
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  15. Brian MacKenzie said:

    i can't wait for the 'oh ya, i emailed it to myself so i could look at
    it later'

    What kind of an idiot do you take me for.... you think I'd do that and
    forget about it 2 days later..... you honestly believe I'm that
    dimwitted, that moronic, that....

    ....yeah.. I did do it. I wasn't gonna say nothing, knowing i'd be
    teased some about it... but I actually did come to realize that I had
    done it. I must find it quite easy to amuse myself... I just play
    tricks on myself.

    So... let's hear what you have to say about that MacKenzie.

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  16. Tim Morin said:


    So... let's hear what you have to say about that MacKenzie.

    well, i must say i find it quite hilarious.

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  17. hahah! so you sent this to yourself and you forgot?

    geezers these days🙄 :p

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    manon1wheel

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  18. manon1wheel said:

    hahah! so you sent this to yourself and you forgot?

    geezers these days🙄 :p

    What do ya mean, geezers? Why, back when I was your age.... just
    kidding.

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  19. My advice going forward is that whenever you send yourself an email send
    another one reminding yourself that you sent one to yourself. It will
    help avoid undue public confusion. 😉

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  20. Tim Morin said:

    I did do it. I wasn't gonna say nothing, knowing i'd be teased some
    about it... but I actually did come to realize that I had done it.

    Tim, may I formally say on behalf of the world wide unicycling
    community:

    H-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-!-!-!-
    -
    -[-S-I-Z-E-=-2-]-T-h-a-n-k-y-o-u-.-
    [/SIZE]

    --
    andycookuk

    To the optimist, the glass is half full.

    To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.

    To the IT guy, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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