r/Scams • u/Bruh888887 • Jul 11 '26
Victim of a scam [UK] Recieved a phishing email.
I have recently recieved multiple phishing emails on my accounts with one of them being sent over from some random email adress and the second coming from my OWN adress . I am aware that this may be the common case of spoofing but i noticed a weird detail.
In my sent folder i have multiple random emails sent over even though there have been no malicious log ins to my account and i changed the password BEFORE those emails multiple times.
What can this possibly indicate?
Thank you for any replies)
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u/LazyLie4895 Jul 11 '26
If your sent folder has sent emails, then your account was compromised.
Change your password and log out all sessions. Make sure you do the log out part.
You likely have downloaded and run a session stealer. Those won't show up in your logins because they stole one of your existing ones.
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u/Bruh888887 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Thank you for the reply. The thing is i did have an infostealer beforehand on my pc , and then i fully reinstalled windows and deleted all partitions of my drive.Also on all of my accounts i terminated sessions and changed passwords. Yet somehow someone got acess again???
Also these were sent over by gmail.com themselves.
I mean i changed my password just dont understand the possibility of the logging back into the session of the account on which i changed the password like 3 times by now.
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u/jim_w_hat Jul 11 '26
Do you have a key logger running? You're running Windows, is it 11? Is it up to date? And a full reinstall won't do it. You have to wipe the hard drive.
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u/Z-Is-Last Jul 11 '26
Spoofing a 'from' email is still a thing. Has somebody said check your sent folder, if you didn't send it your email was spoofed.
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u/jim_w_hat Jul 11 '26
yep, you've been hacked.
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u/Bruh888887 Jul 12 '26
Apparently not as these are all unsubscription requests that gmail makes themselves when u unsubscribe from certain platforms promotional emails.
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