SPAMERS who use your email address in the "from" field...

I assume not much can be done about SPAMERS who use your email address in their "from" field. You can't block it because you will block ALL your "good" email. I have reported it to Yahoo a while back, now it's happening with my GMail address. This is really starting to "TICK" me off!!!

 

There's no copy of those emails in the sent folder.

 

Past advice I've received is to go to your email account and change your password.

 

I did that a few months ago.

 

Hello;
I Know this is late. With all the programs that pound away 24/7 on my accounts, I now change "ALL" my passwords every 30 day's, You can't stop it, only delay.

Rhino

 

In addition to someone's address book, spammer's trojans can also harvest email addresses from email folks have sitting in the various folders (like their Inbox) in their email client. All the more reason to ask your friends not to include you in any mass mailings. You never know where one will end up. It could easily be on some friend of a friend of a friend's infected computer. Once on a spammers list always on the list. And they sell the lists to other spammers.

Get a new email address. Even better is to have at least two. One for close family and friends and another for everyone else including web sites where you make purchases. I have four (each on a different ISP or source) but I only use two on a regular basis.

 

i think it has something to do with the smtp protocol. i don't think you can stop this.

 

Yes, now a days, it is not difficult to hack email address. But how? Any good article?