I’m receiving spam messages in my Inbox with MY email address as the SENDER? How do I stop the intruder?
Posted on : 26-12-2009 | By : admin | In : Spam & Bulk Mail
Tags: Email Sender, Inbox, Intruder, Junk Mail, Spam Messages
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I keep on getting junk mail (I know we all do) in my Bulk folder and I am particularly concerned when some of the mail says it is sent by ME (it has MY email address as the sender). How can I stop this from happening?? Someone is using my email address and is sending out junk mail to everyone out there in cyberland!! Please help ASAP!!




It’s more likely that a spammer has acquired your email address from somebody else’s address book on an infected computer, possibly a friend or other contact you have. They also harvest email addresses from website guestbooks. The spammer will then fake the headers in the spam email to make it look like it came from you. The reason they do this is because you are more likely to open and read the email if you see it has come from your own email address or another familiar address. The odds that anyone would actually purchase something from somebody who uses this scam is almost non-existent. But the spammer / scammers will try anything.