Spam Emails

[pumagirl123]

I have been receiving a lot of spam emails lately, more recently one which is from my email address to my email address, as if sent to myself...when you hover over the email address it comes up blank...I have not opened it for obvious reasons, but the first couple of lines it shows reads:

Re:

Login was smooth and successful.  About few weeks ago I have gained a full...

This is all I can see without opening the email...have I been hacked??

Quite concerning considering all the cyber attacks of late, M&S, Co-op, Renault more recently.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated

Thanks

[gg30340]

If you log onto your email account using a web browser and then tick the box to the left of the email and then click on "More" in the menu bar the "View Source".

This will show you the full details of the emails journey to your inbox. This will show you the email address that sent the email.

[pumagirl123]

Thank you for your response...I'm assuming the return path is where it came from? 

It's all gobbledygook to me 😕

Return-Path: <socialize@mottuneviblu.pics>
Received: from btprdrgi035.btinternet.com ([10.248.67.68])
by btprdfep030.mx.internal with ESMTP
id <20251019042823.ORVS719139.btprdfep030.mx.internal@btprdrgi035.btinternet.com>

[gg30340 · Accepted solution]

That shows it did not come from your email account.

It will be that your email address has been "spoofed" to appear to be coming from a genuine email address so as to give some "credibility" to the unwary.

It may be worth informing your contact that this has happened and that they should be wary of any emails purporting to be from you.

See link about spoofing.

Email spoofing - Wikipedia

It does not mean that your email account has been hacked.

You can check to see if your email address has been involved in any data breaches using this link,

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach

[pumagirl123]

Thank you for your help in clearing this up...I do regularly check my email address on Have I Been Pwned.
Cheers