http://twistyourlist.com/address-email/how-do-i-stop-others-from-stealing-my-email-address-to-use-for-spamming Turn Your List Into A Cash Flow Jack Hammer Sun, 20 May 2012 19:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://twistyourlist.com/address-email/how-do-i-stop-others-from-stealing-my-email-address-to-use-for-spamming#comment-3605 I'm with Stupid Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:49:59 +0000 http://twistyourlist.com/address-email/how-do-i-stop-others-from-stealing-my-email-address-to-use-for-spamming#comment-3605 Spammers can use any "sent by" or "reply to" address they want. It's called address spoofing. Often, they just use random names and characters from only of the thousands of domains. It sounds like they happen to be using your email. Since none of the messages are coming back from your contacts, it may not be due to a trojan on your own machine. Just bad luck. Eventually, your email could get into a known spammer data base, and they will move on to another email. You won't be able to use your address to send to anyone that is using a spam filter and/or doesn't have you email in their address book. Often, the spammers change email before that happens.<br><b>References : </b><br>http://www.spamresource.com/2007/07/ask-al-my-email-address-is-being-used.html http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/general-computer-security/262884-spam-sent-my-email-address.html http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/58666 Spammers can use any "sent by" or "reply to" address they want. It’s called address spoofing. Often, they just use random names and characters from only of the thousands of domains.
It sounds like they happen to be using your email. Since none of the messages are coming back from your contacts, it may not be due to a trojan on your own machine. Just bad luck.
Eventually, your email could get into a known spammer data base, and they will move on to another email. You won’t be able to use your address to send to anyone that is using a spam filter and/or doesn’t have you email in their address book.
Often, the spammers change email before that happens.
References :
http://www.spamresource.com/2007/07/ask-al-my-email-address-is-being-used.html
http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/general-computer-security/262884-spam-sent-my-email-address.html
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/58666

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