Hi Rosemary Given they are showing in your Sent items, it would appear they either have to have originated from one of our devices,..or something had a “script” kick in to send a reminder, or an email reminder (or even a calendar reminder),..or some form of “subscription” reminder, but it’s gone awry…..so you received a heap of them. Has it happened with anything else, or was just the once off?
Normally, if they just all came in to the Inbox, then I’d say it was just someone had compromised your email address (quite easy to do, as anyone can “pretend” to send from your email address,..as a spam message,..then once they bounce,..you get all the real bounces to your “live” email address. But in this instance where this happens you wouldn’t normally have them showing in your Sent folder. So given, you’ve got them going out and coming back in, it would tend to point to some form of automation from ’something”. (Could even be as simple as a shared or subscribed calendar you had and the reminders went out in a loop. Or something like that where a script has gone to do something,…got “stuck” and looped you in to 1000 emails. Were they all different times or all the same time? (They may narrow it down if it’s been stuck in a loop if all different times, or if it’s was a “one off glitch” and it sent and received in a few small space of time. Do you have two factor authentication set on your Gmail address so as to stop someone hacking access it? Unfortunately, one of the checks does show that your gmail address has been “harvested” quite a number of times. There is a good site that you can put in your email address and it will show where you email address has been “collected” from. You can check it here - https://haveibeenpwned.com You put your email address in, and click on “pwned?” To the right of it. It will then show you how many “places” your email address may have been collected from and what details are taken. (As unfortunately it shows your address was in “17 data breaches” - this just means your email address is “out in the wild” for spammers. Hence having two factor authentication set up to limit someone else trying to gain access to your email. From personal experience, I’d be surprised if it’s from the Mac itself being hacked. As in the 21 years of doing MacWizardry, I’ve just to come across a Mac that has actually been hacked. (And even before that as well, hadn’t ever seen it). Even the service guys I know haven’t ever had a machine come through them either. Have seen email addresses get compromised, or people locked out of email addresses and accounts. But unfortunately this is normally done where a person uses the same email address and the same password for everything. Without knowing more details about it, or seeing it, it’s a bit hard to advise unfortunately. But if it was just a “one off” that’s happened, but first thought is some form of email scripting from an App or webpage and it’s just had a hiccup. 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It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. > On 2 Jun 2022, at 10:40 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Rosemary. > > I am a little lost now. > I understood you had an issue with Mail on your Mac ? > How is the iPhone and the iPad involved ? > >> On 2 Jun 2022, at 5:50 pm, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> Yeah I ran a full scan with Total AV and it says all is well. >> Mind you, I guess it could be something on iPhone or iPad rather than the >> computer. >> >> Rosemary Spark >> PO Box 781 >> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >> Mobile: 0414268043 >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 at 16:42, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Rosemary. >> Did you run a full scan with AV ? >> >>> On 2 Jun 2022, at 4:34 pm, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> I have AV virus in place. It seems alert messages is created when I open >>> Apple mail…not from Gmail. >>> >>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 at 10:04, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I agree with Pete ..it sounds like a hack of some kind. >>> >>> Do you use a virus and web protection software ? >>> If you do, try running a full scan. >>> >>> If not I have used Bitdefender for Mac for a few years. >>> It consistently gets top of the list in tests and it has saved me a few >>> times. >>> >>> It also includes a VPN which is free for the first 200MB per day. >>> You have the option of upgrading the VPN to a paid version but I have never >>> done that. >>> I usually switch on the VPN when doing banking. >>> >>> But only the paid version which is about $60.00. >>> The free ones don’t seem to cover everything. >>> >>> >>>> On 2 Jun 2022, at 7:41 am, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sounds like you may have been hacked. But not sure what to do about it >>>> sorry. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> >>>> Pete >>>> >>>>> On 2 Jun 2022, at 7:26 am, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Re-sending >>>>> >>>>> I received about 1000 email messages in my gmail from me to me saying >>>>> alert election day....after the election. They were in the sent folder >>>>> though I didn't send them. >>>>> I did not set up an alert at all. >>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) >>>>> Monterey 12.3.1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>> Mobile: 0414268043 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kind Regards Rosemary Spark 0414268043 [email protected] >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Stephen Chape >>> >>> Mac by choice >>> Windows because my employer knew no better >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> -- >>> Kind Regards Rosemary Spark 0414268043 [email protected] >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> Regards >> Stephen Chape >> >> Mac by choice >> Windows because my employer knew no better >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > > Regards > Stephen Chape > > Mac by choice > Windows because my employer knew no better > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
