{"id":17394,"date":"2025-05-13T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/?p=17394"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:16:00","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-to-control-receiving-strange-email-from-yourself_mdaemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2025\/05\/13\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-to-control-receiving-strange-email-from-yourself_mdaemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What You Need to Know to control receiving strange email from yourself_Mdaemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"502\">It\u2019s alarming to discover that someone is sending emails that appear to come from your email address\u2014especially if you didn\u2019t send them. This situation can make you wonder if your email has been hacked. However, not all suspicious activity means you\u2019ve been compromised. In many cases, your email address may simply be\u00a0<strong data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"487\">spoofed<\/strong>, not hacked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"690\">In this post, we\u2019ll explain the difference between\u00a0<strong data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"588\">spoofed, hacked, and infected<\/strong>\u00a0email accounts, and share\u00a0<strong data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"655\">best practices to protect your email<\/strong>\u00a0from spoofing and other threats.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"695\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"762\">\u2705\u00a0<strong data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"762\">Spoofed vs. Hacked vs. Infected: What\u2019s the Difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"851\">Understanding the difference between these scenarios is key to taking the right action.<\/p>\n<h4 data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"881\">\ud83d\udca1\u00a0<strong data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"881\">1. Spoofed Email<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"1380\">\n<li data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"1074\"><strong data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"899\">What it is:<\/strong>\u00a0Spoofing is when a scammer forges the &#8220;From&#8221; field in an email header to make it look like the message came from your address. However, they have no access to your account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mdaemon.com\/receiving-strange-emails-from-yourself-heres-what-you-need-to-know?utm_content=332581438&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;hss_channel=fbp-220307374735000\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s alarming to discover that someone is sending emails that appear to come from your email address\u2014especially if you didn\u2019t send them. This situation can make you wonder if your email has been hacked. However, not all suspicious activity means you\u2019ve been compromised. In many cases, your email address may simply be\u00a0spoofed, not hacked. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17396,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17394\/revisions\/17396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}