How can I stop others from using my account to send spams?
I hardly ever uses my account but recently, I keep on receiving over 80 postmaster delivery failure to contacts that I knew nothing of. I think someone is using my account to sent spam to others. How can this be stop. This is not the first time it happened. I even tried changing my password and had more than one email account being blocked for this reason. It really frustrated me.
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Answer 1 :
Spammers just use random email addresses in the 'From' address of the emails they send. Anything that bounces goes back to that address, rather than the real sender. It does not mean anyone has used your account in any way.
Answer 2 :
Check your outbox to see if the emails were actually sent from your account. If not, your account was not used. If that is not the case, and you've already changed your password, scan your computers for viruses, spyware, or keyloggers. Links to these types of software can be found on the links page at http://villainousnetworks.webs.com.
Answer 3 :
Change your password, or delete the account and make a new one :)
Answer 4 :
First change your password. Account help.http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/in… for just about anything to do with your account. Then run anti Virus and Anti Spyware. Should be fine then.
Answer 5 :
Sounds like your computer might be infected and become part of a bot-net. Update your AV and run a scan, also try Malwarebyte's AntiMalware and/or SuperAntiSpyware (both have free versions for scanning and removing).
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