Sinister: Have you received an unusual e-mail from this address?

[maddalo at xxx.com]

Hello.  If you are receiving this e-mail, that means your e-mail 
address was contained in the address book at my old account at 
maddalo at aol.com

I have reason to believe this account was hacked.

The primary evidence for this is a number of e-mail addresses in the 
address book to which I have never sent anything.  This leads me to 
believe that someone else gained access to my account, and sent 
something from it, to addresses which I do not recognize at all.

I am therefore e-mailing every address in my address book—including 
those to which I have personally never sent anything—to ask whether you 
have received anything strange, unusual, offensive, or otherwise 
untoward sent from this address (maddalo at aol.com).

The difficulty here is that I myself have, on occasion, sent strange, 
unusual, offensive and untoward e-mails with no assistance from anyone 
else.  But if I did, in fact, send such an e-mail to you, then I’m 
happy to admit it.  (And perhaps even to apologize for it.  The reasons 
for my own sending strange, unusual, offensive or untoward e-mails are 
varied, but I’m happy to offer an explanation if you’d like one, and an 
apology if one is indeed merited.)

However, I have no desire to explain or apologize for anything that I 
personally never sent and had nothing to do with sending—I’m just 
trying to clarify whether this did, in fact, happen.  The evidence from 
my address book suggests that it did—but I have no evidence whatsoever 
of what might have been sent.

America On-Line has been (unsurprisingly) of no use in helping me to 
determine if e-mails were sent from this account and then deleted from 
the outbox.  Therefore I am asking for assistance from everyone in my 
address book—including those addresses to which I have never personally 
sent anything.

If you received an e-mail from this account that I did not send, then 
I’d like to know about it.  The only evidence I have is the unusual 
addresses in my address book, to which I have no recollection of having 
sent anything—therefore I have no idea of what may have been sent, or 
who sent it.  But if you received something strange, I’d like to be 
informed about it.

Please respond to this request via my new e-mail address, 
peterjustinmorris at gmail.com, or else I can be reached by telephone at 
USA 484 574 2568.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.


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