Hi gang! One moment I'm not active for a while and then I sent out a stream of messages Anyway, if you suddenly discover weird messages in your GMail sent folder which appear to be spam and which were not written by you then there's an explanation for that. Sort off... Apparently spammers can spoof GMail e-mail addresses. That by itself isn't strange, but if they do so using GMail itself and use an existing address then their spam will end up in your mailbox. Well, sent mail box. Assuming of course they used your GMail e-mail address. Here is the notification on Googles support forums, and here is the article on The Register (which is how I found out about this). Figured I'd share.
Haha, interesting. I mean, getting spam from a real e-mail address is bad, as it might make more people not realise it's spam, but I am amused by these e-mails being able to show up in your sent items.
This got me interested, so I went and looked. I've got my novel being sent to the girl who motivates me to make words, a letter for her best friend to print out and give to her for her birthday, a load of essays I sent to my mum for printing (my computer and printer really don't like eachother), some email subscriptions that I am still plagued by to this day, an email exchange with a suicide helpline from many years ago, and all the emails I sent to my first ever best friend who moved to Belgium when we were seven before we moved to Facebook Messenger (he now lives in Liverpool again and has done since 2016, somehow we still haven't met up again). No spoofs but oh boy that was a weird trip.
Yep. Beyond large file transfer to another person I don't have a use for them that a messaging app can't do for me. And if I need to email a teacher, I use my college email address - I usually just go talk to them in person, though.
