Is my husband lying? Can a hacker send emails and reply to Craigslist personal ads?

Question

I have recently found some very questionable emails in my husband's account. In his inbox, sent mail, and trash folder, I found messages that said replied as well. He is claiming that someone hacked into his email and sent these messages out to these girls wanting to meet up and this is his first time and some said his name and number. He said these hackers can find out any information that they want etc. including his work and travel schedule. One of the emails stated where he would be out of town on a particular day. I find it so hard to believe him when the proof was right in my face. I have been researching this and would like some input and accurate up to date answers. The emails all got deleted as soon as I said I seen them. Now he claims the hacker did that too. To me a hacker wants to know and figure out your banking account info and social and or send links in your email to get ppl to click on to get a virus. I can't believe how far he has gone with all of this lying. Every question to him has a clever response as to why a hacker would take the time or do this to him. He says his work schedule is out there somewhere on the Internet. Who in the world would go to all this trouble? Why not just be honest with me? At the same time I want answers and need someone to tell me if this is at all possible? Some of the other emails I can see that they could be taken as spam. But not the sent mail. Don't you have to be on a pornography site to start getting these types of Spam?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible he or she is telling the truth that someone or system hacked their email and sent craigslist personals messages. It happened to my phone a year ago. Why? I have no idea. How? I have no idea. Maybe from using unknown WiFi sources to save data on my android? Why would a hacker waste time on this? I have no idea, but I do know there's a bunch of twisted sick people out there. Like trying to understand why would someone enjoy killing people. It has taken a major toll till this day on me and my wife's marriage and trust.



I rarely used my gmail anymore but had it for almost 10 years and I had a craigslist account to sell items that I haven't used in years. I'm not the cheater type. But one day my wife was using my phone and discovered messages being posted on craigslist personals like 1 every minute sometimes 2 posting a min in my gmail account.

Answer 2

Spam can having anyones email. You send emails to your friend Debbie. She gets infected, and the bad stuff finds your email address in her computer and uses it. But, for to-from craiglist this doesn't happen. Craigslist email is fairly secure. I think he's just a dog and denying all he can. And I have a GSEC in computer security. Tell him if you really trust each other you should both use the same username/passwords on all of your computers. If that flys like a lead brick he's guilty as hell. If you want a lot of fun google "web historian" and run that on a computer he uses :)

- Joe

Answer 3

i'm calling bull on his 'explanation'.



email addresses are hacked all the time, but not for this reason, it's usually an automated bot that gets installed on your computer that sends out spam.



they do not contact specific people and write to them in a conversation.



if, as he claims, someone hacked his account just to send out these emails, impersonating him or someone else. i call Bull on this as well, no one would do this unless he was some famous figure or important person and they wanted to ruin his reputation. email addresses are free to create, anyone wanting to meet women would create a new one for free.



being as dumb as he is, he was not only caught by you, lied about it, but he deleted the emails strait away as soon as you pointed it out. you should have printed them out!!



sorry to say but all points to it being him.



check his phone, the phone will also have a 'sent' section for emails (if it's a smart phone) which will also hold any pictures he sent out, replies he made.



check his text/messages in the 'sent' part as well.



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the likely hood of it happening as he says is very very slim.

Answer 4

In it for the Lulz,



Hackers do not generally target people and send hook up notices. When an e-mail account is taken over often the owner is locked out with a p@ssword change so they cannot stop the activity the account is being used for. Usually hacks are done to aquire money or info. Your husband's access to top secret info is likely limited. Other reason to hack accounts is for sending spam, often linked to malware that will Root a target machine to add to a botnet. Big money in sending of mass spam. Also good money in selling botnets along with access to the command and control server which can install different modules to steal login data and banking/credit card info. Spam is often Nigerian Princess inheritance sccam or mailorder brides who con people out of money and nevvver show up



Plain and simple, you caught his sorry *** trying to hook up with other women and he thinks you are just a simple girl who will fall for his lies. Put a tracking app on his phone to follow him via GPS... lol

UNless he is a politician or somebody worth blackmailing he would not be targetted



Porn sites are high traffic sites targetted with man in the middle attacks or cross site scripting because of their high volume of daily traffic. The actual sites themselves do not host malware as they want to keep their customers coming back. Attacking your customers is not good for business

Answer 5

everyone has pretty much covered all the bases but it is some sad hacker that commits a crime in hacking a personal email just to mess with some guy by sending bogus emails to bogus girls or whatever on the off-chance that his wife might look at his email. at least "my mates are messing with me" would have been more believable. i say let him think you believe him. you can set him up for something a lot more fun in the future.

Answer 6

It is possible that a malicious software will automatically send out emails to random people. HOWEVER, i cannot remember any malware that automatically delete the emails sent out.



It is unusual for a hacker as well to send out a very specific email with those details such as "will be out of town" and more.

Answer 7

Let's assume he's lying, What's your next move. You gonna make more fights?

I'm male and i know women get disgusted so much about this stuff. But these kind of problems need to be solved in long term not by Shoot Shoot.



First try to be calm. Be sure you are nice and good woman and nothing wrong with you by anyway.

But some married men (I'm not married yet) goes under stress for many factors. Work, kids, income things like this and they go to this way. So my suggestion. You have to make him know that you know he's lying but in clever way without get into a fight. And try to spend and talk with him more. And increase and boost your feminine primary skills. I hope your life goes good. And Sorry if advised about something i don't have business with.



If you love him and he loves you (forget about the emails) find a solution and don't give up easily.



Good luck.

Answer 8

Definately lying, you should get screenshots of those emails then and get a private investigator to research it, I know it sounds like not the best solution but then if you did that you would be able to divorce him easily and take whatever amount of money you want since he has been cheating

Answer 9

I have the same question in my husbands email there were ads being sent to Craigslist for threesoms. He denied it but is it possible someone could have hacked his account?

Answer 10

Did you figure this out in the end? I'm in the same situation and he says it's not him.

Answer 11

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Answer 12

its obviously a lie! no way a hacker can know so much! did he say the hacker was God? lets say he is cheating! now what? he may still love you but is confused! are you going to end it or just let it go

Answer 13

You're the one needs to be concerned about an infection...he may not be using antivirus protection...

Answer 14

I found the same thing in my boyfriend's email. The emails said sent from iPhone and contained pictures. He denied it and said he was hacked. Should I believe him?

Answer 15

No you don't have to be on porn sites to get this type of spam.