NIce to meet you everyone. been reading lots of posts.

Question - I found out that someone has accessed my yahoo email account. I found a few messages that were not opened by me. Is there any way to find out who did this?

Also, does anyone know why I cannot get a return recipt to go through a yahoo account?

Hello and Welcome.

You can read up on the Yahoo why here.

Mark

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Realistically, no. If they logged onto your account, then, to the server, you logged on. If someone did it remotely, i.e. they didn't use your personal computer, then I'd hazard that it's impossible to tell who it was. If it was your computer, then it's a matter of figuring out who had access to it when it was "hacked" into.

Regarding your 2nd question, what exactly do you mean? Like using Yahoo to send an email w/ a return receipt attached or like getting an email that someone wants a return receipt on?

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Check your computer for spyware/trojans/viruses and change your current Y! password and secret question.

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Thanks for the insights everyone ;-)

Is it possible to see the IP of who logged into the account and when? That way when they accessed it remotely, it would have left some sort of identification. Someone accessed the account, then printed out a letter and gave it to a person that was not ment to see it. (letter taken out of context.. etc)

I found out that someone had accessed the account again this Monday. I want to catch who did it.

As far as the second question goes, I thought that if I sent a return request on a letter from another e-mial account then sent it to the yahoo account, the IP would be on there of who ever opened it. Perhaps giving me the idenity of the person that did this. I have been trying to test it out but I am not getting the return request to work on the yahoo account though.

I doubt that you personally can; that information is usually only on the respective server. You might be able to contact Yahoo's customer support but I don't think they'd be willing to give that to you w/o a court order. My best recommendation is to change your account login info or better yet get another account.

Yahoo does't offer return receipt services, so I don't think you'll be able to do that. see here.

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