If you send someone an email, is it possible for them to alter the content and make it look like you wrote something that you actually didn't?
2007-02-07 15:48:07 · 4 answers · asked by Nunya 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Yes and no.
If you use a program like Outlook they can. If they forward the email to someone they can edit the text that you originally sent. Outlook will often change the font type and color as they change it but a savvy user can find ways around that.
Of course, you still have the original email that you sent (should be automatically saved into your Sent folder) so you are protected there.
Yahoo mail defends against this. When you forward an email to someone it does not include the text from the original email in the view that you will see. However, Yahoo will allow for an email be easily altered when they respond back to you. For this reason you should make it a practice to BCC (Blind Courtesy Copy) yourself on sensitive emails. They will not see that a copy was sent to you.
AOL (web based mail) does nothing to protect you. You can alter a message when you reply to it as well as when you forward it so again, BCC yourself here too.
Other email programs you will just have to check on your own.
2007-02-07 15:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a stalker that I know has done this to me lots of times. They take emails that I sent them, change them around and send them out to people that I considered friends. When the other person is thru with me, I look like the scum of the earth. I have no email contact with this person any more, have them blocked from my accounts, but sometimes it seems like the same stuff is going on.
2007-02-07 15:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Altering an email is the esiesty thing in the world you open it to REPLY change the details and then write it back to the disk. It can be printed or resent as a forward.
Changing the header details is also a steal you can open the header of any email using notepad after it has been saved to the desktop. alter the time and date and save it
2007-02-07 15:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. That would be easy. Even better, somone could completely make it up from scratch. The only way to prove what was actually sent would be to get the logs from the mail server, but even then, a crafty enough individual could "fix" that, too.
2007-02-07 15:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋