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| Thread ID: 94806 | 2008-11-12 21:52:00 | has my email address been hijacked? | timmy5953 (6846) | Press F1 |
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| 719904 | 2008-11-12 21:52:00 | All my email is delivered to my Inbox in MS Outlook. However, I can also get access to inward email at my ISP’s site (Yahoo/Xtra). The ISP does a good job diverting all Spam to the Spam folder before it gets to my Outlook inbox. But I am amazed, and a little anxious, to find that several recent spam emails show the sender is me, i.e. exactly my email address! The ISP is smart enough to know that such mail is spam, and sends it straight to the Spam folder (how it knows that is a mystery). But if such spam starts getting sent to any of my contacts purporting to have come from me, I could have some problems. How is it possible for a spammer to hijack & use an email address that shows me as the sender when i am not? How can I stop it? |
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| 719905 | 2008-11-12 21:57:00 | Another post about it the other day (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz). | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 719906 | 2008-11-12 22:19:00 | It is not always someone with an infected computer sending out spam. Anyone can send an email with your email address in the from Field. Spammers may have picked up your email address from somewhere and using that to send spam pretending to come from yourself. It is a ploy to try and avoid spam filters. There is nothing you can do about it unfortunately but wait for it to stop. You may also get numerous returned emails if the spam has been sent to many other addresses and they are not able to be delivered. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 719907 | 2008-11-12 23:12:00 | There is nothing you can do about it unfortunately but wait for it to stop. . You can check your spam settings at your ISP via webmail, may need re-training. Or you can enable Junk filtering In Thunderbird or use a 3rd party spam filter. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 719908 | 2008-11-12 23:20:00 | You can check your spam settings at your ISP via webmail, may need re-training. Or you can enable Junk filtering In Thunderbird or use a 3rd party spam filter. It is not the spam email that is the problem, probably only get one of those. It is the returned emails from all the servers that have rejected the thousands of emails that have come supposedly from your address. You can't filter those out. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 719909 | 2008-11-13 01:37:00 | I repeatedly tell people: Do not forward emails and leave the previous addresses on them.This is the main source for spammers to get addresses. I have had emails with up to 35 previous senders addresses on them.What a spammers gold mine.A lot of my close associates still send on emails just by clicking the "forward" button and send them to everyone in their address book. |
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| 719910 | 2008-11-14 08:38:00 | thanks to all. i will tread carefully thru some of the advice offered. |
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