Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Hello!

Last week I found out I've sent some spam (weight loss pills) to a some ppl. I'm suspecting that they were sent from my nokia n900 since I'm always logged in to my hotmail using the native email client.

Why suspect they were coming from my N900 is that my computer wasn't on during this time. I've looked thru the outbox but I can't find any of those emails there.

Have any one else had similar problems with their N900??

Since then I've changed my password.
But is it possible for another application to use the email client to send out spam??

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

dude leave hotmail alone it can easly be hacked ;)

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

I would think someone is spoofing using your address.

Hotmail has fairly decent security, IMO.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Yeah, I know.. but usually that involves changing password in the process, and it wasn't changed.

I'm not suspecting my hotmail being hacked. Since I rarely use my hotmail on my computer. I just use it on the N900..

I'm trying backtrack were it was sent from..

Any clues?

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Don't think it's spoofed either, message details says it was sent from a hotmail server.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

This has nothing to do with your N900. Your Hotmail account has been hacked. This happened with many Yahoo Mail accounts. Passwords over a certain age weren't secure. I believe you could even have changed the password back to THE SAME PASSWORD and that would have still solved the problem because it was the obsolete way the password was kept thay allowed a spammer to trigger a message being sent to your contacts.

I am not an expert, and the above is an approximation of the story as I understand it.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Yeah I really hope so. But would it be able for any other software/application to use the native email client for sending emails?

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Spoof via the hotmail server
telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25


I think you have been spoofed or hacked.

If you have changed your password and the messages stopped, i'd guess the latter.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Yup, messages stopped. But sending out mail about weight loosing pills to two female colleagues wasn't a hit. lol.

But can anyone confirm that no other app can use my native email client?

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

no app can use your native email client :) never happend with me and i think you will be asked from the app for permission if so ;)

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Ok, thanks. Then I can start using my mail again :)

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

you are welcome ;)

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

When you changed the password, you made it impossible for any prrogram to use the same trick to message your contacts, I think, and also impossible to send messages from that account under your name.

I also think that the people who used the trick have no way of knowing who the trick worked on, the only way they know it worked on anyone is because the volume of messages at the 'lose weight now!' or whatever site goes up. They just sent a bunch of messages at Hotmail and caught some victims.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

It is highly unlikely that a spammer should learn the secrets of the N900 and use those few N900s that exist to do a spamattack, when the world is filled with windows machines and other happy victims.

But except for that, a dbuscall to

--dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.MailTo string:"mailto:"

Can create a new mail.

But for a spammer both to get the idea to investigate the N900 beyond that (Not only to create the mail but also to send it witout the users help) and to explicitly target N900s "com.nokia.modest" for such a nicheproduct as a N900 to send spam is highly unlikely...

Virusmakers,spammers and similar want their programs to be effective, and to explicitly target the extremly small part of the traffic done by N900s on internet is just a big waste of time.
-Malware cant even be spread effectively when the platforms marketshare is so low.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Well, Hotmail... :)

I recommend using GMail's 2-step-verification. It requires typing a code received by SMS when you log in from different machine than usual. Also, it generates special code for each app, so it is almost impossible for anyone to hack your account.

Re: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
 

Yeah I know Hotmail sucks..

But I have the previligie to have my email ID as
name.surname@hotmail.com. I can't get that on gmail :(

Also, I don't think my emai was spoofed, since it sent out emails to my contacts.

So I guess it was hacked. I was just intrigued by my mail being hacked. It has never happened to me before.

Anyway.. thanks all for uour help and input.
Greatly appreciated! :)