Need techy help

[airdvr 210]

Somehow I'm getting spam from myself. The e-mails come to me and are from my e-mail addy.

My ISP has been no help. Yesterday, on a whim I went in and changed my password hoping this would make it stop. No help.

How can this be happening? What can I do?

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[CSpenceFLY 1]

Someone "spoofed" your account. Basically copied your account to send out spam. Nothing you can do. It will stop in a couple of weeks.

[ifall 0]

You're email address has been spoofed. It happens quite a bit. Especially in big companies. There is not much you can do about it. Is this your personal email address?

Here's some info on spoofing.

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html


edit: oops, spence beat me to it.

[CSpenceFLY 1]

The only reason I know that is it happened to me once. I got about 100 emails a day returned to my account.

[LOSTandCRAZY 0]

Lol.

Yeah, I once set up a spam bot to spam my English boss (from the UK, English) with 1776 emails having "1776" in the subject line on July 4th.

It was quite satisfying.

"Get these balls!"

[TheBachelor 5]

This will happen again and again. If you can block email addresses, just block emails from yourself.

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...