I got a warning notification above an email I recieved in Gmail that reads, ‘it seems to be an auto-reply to a message that pretended to be sent from your email address’. I’m a bit confused about how someone can pretend to send an email from my email address,and I am wondering if this means my email address has been spoofed? Ik I haven’t sent anything to anyone or signed up to anything that would prompt and auto reply, and it’s pretty clear that this email is spam, I’m just soncerned this means someone is sending mail to someone pretending to be me. Also it seems to be sent from bezeqint.net servers, which is odd. Anyone got any answers or explanations? Edit: it says ‘bezeqint.net did not encrypt this message’
So first off, this could be a scam. Not sure how, but you’re right to be skeptical.
Email is very old. Older than the internet. It wasn’t designed with security or authentication in mind. Those things have been bolted on over the decades. My point is that I can make my email say it came from any email address. But that bolted on security is going to flag it as a spoof. So someone spoofed your email address and got an auto reply back. That auto reply went to you, because the email listed your email as the return address, as it was spoofed.
So it is nothing you did and nothing you can do about it, and no cause for concern.