An email sent from my future self?

Funny stuff :) But anyways, it would be really simple to do something like this with email spoofing like most people are saying on here. You just need a server, and then you can spoof any email address. However, is that true that the message was also in your Sent folder? If so, he actually did gain access to your account (or had access to the server).

There's no way he can spoof mail into your Sent folder. Also, a lot of platforms out there for viewing mail will allow you to view the source of the email you received. So you can see what server it's coming from, and if it's authenticated (like he logged in to your account).
 
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This being said, I wonder if one could send an email to their past self by sending from their own email address to avoid spam filters but spoofing the send date as something in the past, just as you may receive emails from time to time that are marked as being received days in the future due to date spoofing.
 
samiejg said:
Funny stuff :) But anyways, it would be really simple to do something like this with email spoofing like most people are saying on here. You just need a server, and then you can spoof any email address. However, is that true that the message was also in your Sent folder? If so, he actually did gain access to your account (or had access to the server).

There's no way he can spoof mail into your Sent folder. Also, a lot of platforms out there for viewing mail will allow you to view the source of the email you received. So you can see what server it's coming from, and if it's authenticated (like he logged in to your account).
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No, I'm 100% positive that he has never gained access to my account. And the email has indeed be found in my sent folder inbox.
I also received another email from him/my email:

"We, in the future, have noticed a distinct lack of our existence ending. YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT WHICH YOU WILL BRING UPON THIS VERY EARTH; I INSIST THAT YOU STOP MAKING MONEY NOW.The gravity of the situation may be way over your head, but consequences will NEVER
BE THE SAME
-Fared"

But anyways, I'll try to find the source. (He admitted, it was the aid of a website)
 
Oh.. ok :P Well.. doesn't really make sense at all how that is possible haha But yeah once you check out that source you will know for sure what's going on. Just that message in the sent folder is throwing me off. Because spoofing doesn't work that way. He would be sending you an unauthenticated email from another server impersonating your email, but all messages always go in the inbox. The only time messages go in your sent folder is when you actually move them there, or if you send a message.

Anyways, if you're telling the truth about him not having access, I would be very curious to know how he's doing something like that :P Let us know how it goes! Let me know if you need any help reading the source.

Edit: P.S. I have been working for Web Hosting companies for many years now and have took many calls regarding customers and spoof email, and I have never seen anything like what you're describing (where they didn't actually have access to your account).

Edit Again: Unless you just have some really strange webmail platform that automatically associates any "sent from you" messages to your sent folder because it sees it was sent by you. I've never really seen a system like that though, but I suppose it's possible :P
 
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I would be sending that to everyone saying don't forget you where going to buy ......
 
lol. its easy as configuring a mail client. u can send email from anyoe you like. as long as u have an email with smtp details.
 
It doesn't have to come from the true SMTP server:) It's a case of spoofing the sender email address, but if you look in the email headers you can see that the email didn't come from the sender's local server, it would have gone through a relay that didn't have authentication.
 
its a simple spoofing/modify the header info - if you have Interspire installed, you can change the sender into anything you like - i did this once to one of my mates using this ####.#####[email protected] address ;)
 
The issue with that though is that he's saying it showed up in his Sent folder as well. There's no way to spoof that, so it kind of complicates things. Unless of course he's using some type of strange Webmail application that automatically associates messages from himself into the Sent folder. But I'm sure that's a very unlikely scenario if it's at all even possible.
 
Just whipped this up. It'll go to the spam folder most likely, but it'll still work.

Code: 
<?php
if(isset($_POST['send'])){
    //set the shit. who cares about error handling? #yolo
    $to = $_POST['to'];
    $from = $_POST['from'];
    $subject = $_POST['subject'];
    $msg = $_POST['msg'];
    
    //set the from and reply-to headers to the "FROM" address
    $headers = 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $from . "\r\n";
    
    //send it out
    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Email Myself</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST">
        Email To: <input type="email" name="to"/><br/>
        Email From: <input type="email" name="from"/><br/>
        Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" /><br/>
        Message: <textarea name="msg"></textarea><br/><br/>
        <input type="submit" name="send" value="Send Email"/>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
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