My account is sending spam emails
Exact same thing for me.<p>Noticed I was getting emails being sent from myself. More worringly was the emails appeared in my SENT folder. For 5mins I was freaking out thinking I was hacked, because I didnt think spoofing emails would show up in MY &quot;sent&quot; folder.<p>But I run 2FA, long complex unique password etc. I treat OpSec really highly. I checked all Google security settings, no unauthorised access, no apps using my account etc. Still did a password reset &quot;just in case&quot;.<p>However one interesting part is after about 4 hours the emails automatically became marked as &quot;spam&quot; - and they disappeared from my &quot;sent&quot; folder simulatenously.<p>So it would seem the likely issue is someone worked out a way around the &quot;Spam&quot; setting for Gmail - and a by-product of not flagging spoofed emails as spam is Gmail marks them as &quot;Sent&quot; by you in the labels.<p>Seems this was flagged as a security risk over a year ago - and Google declined to fix? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;spammers-delight-gmail-weirdly-doesnt-see-spoofed-gmail-com-addresses-as-junk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;spammers-delight-gmail-weirdly...</a>