[65WJ]

Any Ideas what I can do?
Someone used my email and sent out a bunch of garbage to all my friends.

Ill call ATT and see what they can do.
Any ideas will be helpfull.

patrick

[Cobrabill]

Happened to me.Just come with a new really difficult password.

[65WJ]

thanks Bill thats what ATT just help me do.

[Cobrabill]

The responsible people should be beaten half to death.

[Rodney R]

Smart to change your password. It's also smart to change it every 90-120 days as well. Frequently changing your password is one of the best ways to protect your account.

[Txbobcat]

It happened to me also. Sent Viagra ads to all the church members. ATT also

[Tambo]

Originally Posted by Cobrabill

The responsible people should be beaten half to death.

What do you mean ... half ........

[MYGOAT]

Sometimes the emails don't even come from your account. The source could be some one that has your email address in their contacts list.
Happened to me a while back. Should have seen the abusive replies I was getting from some of people that got these emails that I allegedly sent. On the other hand I got one thankyou from one person that got one of these emails which had a link to an online store that sold electrical goods. In most parts they are harmless but bloody annoying.

[Mr_GTO]

Originally Posted by Txbobcat

It happened to me also. Sent Viagra ads to all the church members. ATT also

Better than gay porn and bestiality ads.

[mike nixon]

And here I was blaming the fat people porn on you Patrick!

Seriously change your password to something unrelated and go on.

[65WJ]

Originally Posted by mike nixon

And here I was blaming the fat people porn on you Patrick!

Seriously change your password to something unrelated and go on.

sorry Mike. It was changed last night.

patrick

[Sirrotica]

Mine was hacked and Andy Woodruff, Pete Woodruff's wife from Pontiac Nationals, E Mailed me back and told me my account had been hacked, she never mentioned what she got though.....LOL

I'll have to ask her in August what they sent her, or maybe I really don't want to know.......LOL

[Cobrabill]

Originally Posted by Tambo

What do you mean ... half ........

[tripower]

I have to deal with this all the time in my IT job. It's more likely you were "spoofed" than actually hacked. Hacked means that someone has figured out your e-mail password, meaning they can go and read your e-mail, send, etc. More commonly your e-mail address is spoofed, meaning a spammer found your address and is using it to send out spam. When they send it out, they use your spoofed name in the "from field" so that the recipient see's a legit sender address and opens it. More than likely someone elses computer got a virus and sent his/her contact list (with your good e-mail address) to the spammer for use in his spam program.

[65WJ]

Originally Posted by tripower

I have to deal with this all the time in my IT job. It's more likely you were "spoofed" than actually hacked. Hacked means that someone has figured out your e-mail password, meaning they can go and read your e-mail, send, etc. More commonly your e-mail address is spoofed, meaning a spammer found your address and is using it to send out spam. When they send it out, they use your spoofed name in the "from field" so that the recipient see's a legit sender address and opens it. More than likely someone elses computer got a virus and sent his/her contact list (with your good e-mail address) to the spammer for use in his spam program.

thank you very much for you insight. How can I stop this?

patrick

[Cobrabill]

Originally Posted by tripower

I have to deal with this all the time in my IT job. It's more likely you were "spoofed" than actually hacked. Hacked means that someone has figured out your e-mail password, meaning they can go and read your e-mail, send, etc. More commonly your e-mail address is spoofed, meaning a spammer found your address and is using it to send out spam. When they send it out, they use your spoofed name in the "from field" so that the recipient see's a legit sender address and opens it. More than likely someone elses computer got a virus and sent his/her contact list (with your good e-mail address) to the spammer for use in his spam program.

I had a"e-mail issue" a few months back and it stopped as soon as i changed my password,however.......

[hurryinhoosier62]

Mine was hacked earlier this year. A couple of family members received a couple of nearly pornographic e-mails and contacted me. I changed my password and apologized.
IF I ever catch the POS, I GUARANTEE the scumbag WON'T be using a keyboard until the broken hand bones heal!!

[WDCreech]

Mine was hacked recently and I found out when I got returned emails that I didn't send. The subect ("Look at this property") I had never sent to anyone, so I just changed my password...again.

[tripower]

Originally Posted by 65WJ

thank you very much for you insight. How can I stop this?

patrick

You can't unforunetely. Notify your friends and contacts that someone hacked a computer with your contact info. Most decent spam filter programs will quickly learn and weed out the spam containing your e-mail address in the "from" field. The system we use (Cisco Iron Port) updates its spam algorithm daily, sometimes hourly. It should stop soon.

[poncho-mike]

Does anyone know if Yahoo puts a limit on how many attempts you get before revoking access to your email account?

If there is no limit, then you really need to make your password very complex. Mine is a series of four unrelated words with a few special characters.

When my son first set up an email account, he chose zaq12wsx and it was hacked within a month.

Mike