Thread: Suspecting my N900 sending out spam mail
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geneven is offline geneven
2012-06-23 , 22:44
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Originally Posted by wiicked View Post
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??
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.
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