spam from Android?

[cyberpine]

Early this morning all my contacts got a email from my google address. with a single link pointing to some Canadian Healthcare mall site. I'm trying to figure out if this came from google or my Android phone.

I'm looking at the full message with headers. How can I confirm it came from my phone? I'm on a Samsung EPIC.

It says client IP: 72.167.218.21 which is godaddy, but that might not be the culprit as i have my domain (hosted on godaddy) forwarding to my gmail account which is what I use on my adroid phone.

How can I find the application that might have done this?

Of course this totally sucks as anybody getting the email has my full list of contacts and I had both work and personal contacts on there...

Some other related problems that aggrevate this..

1. Everytime I send an email from gmail or my phone it automatically adds it as a contact... why?
2. For work related emails, I can't seem to do exchange address lookups from my android phone like I use to from my blackberry? Why?

Any way to list all applications on my phone that have access to send emails automatically? Why would any app need this right?

Thanks.

 

[ironass]

The simple answer is that it's nothing to do with Android or your phone.

Much more likely is that your PC, which has your email account and address book on, has become infected with malware/spyware that has hijacked your address book and fired off those emails.

I would first look to cleaning your PC using the following which are free:-

Download details: Microsoft

 

[takeshi]

How can I find the application that might have done this?

It may not be an app that's the culprit. Your account could have been spoofed, for example.

Any way to list all applications on my phone that have access to send emails automatically? Why would any app need this right?

Depends on the app. There's no one-size-fits-all answer. See other threads regarding permissions.

 

[amlothi]

It may not be an app that's the culprit. Your account could have been spoofed, for example.

Yes, but whatever/whoever it was - they appear to have accessed his addressbook.

Who knows what other things they have access to?

Where else is your addressbook located? On your PC? On your work computer?

Perhaps someone simply hacked your gmail account?

 

[cyberpine]

sorry took while to get back to this. The next day I was unable to access my account an dhad to have it reset and I then got an email from google warning me my account had been access from outside the US (brasil to be exact). My account was hacked. Sorry not android issue at all as I thought.