Someone's sending from my email address! How do I stop them?!

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If you don't have access to the accounts then you likely
cannot delete them. Contacting customer service may be
ineffective, but it's your only option.

Leo

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Hi. I hope this is not off topic. For the second time in 4 months - I have had a webhosting account suspended - they had some company in england that had a link from one of my sites and they say I'm running a phishing site. I don't send email and although I get at least 8 phishing deals everyday - I've never clicked on any of them. About 8 months ago someone said another of my sites was sending spam from an older article directory I had that wasn't being use and wasn't even on the pages to be found.

How do we protect our websites from this kind of stuff and if this goes on - nobody will dare rent webspace anymore - and why do the webhosts buy all this time and shut sites down - just on the word of some stranger or organization.

Thanks - the website in question is: http://the-idaho-trader.com

I have mccafee latest, suite 8 and spyware doctor with anti-virus and super antispyware free edition

I have in the last few weeks been receibg numerous failure messages of emails that I have never sent which have been returned to sender only these were not sent by me in the first palce. these mostly are in Russian alphabet characters. We also had to remove a virus which got through our file wall and anti virus software. It looks like I will need to change my email address.

Hi , Someone is using my email address to do spam mail last week . I have changed my password and today i still receive the same spam me again. When I did a replay it replied back to my email add. What should I do?

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"What should I do?" - Probably read the article you just
commented on. :-) It pretty clearly explains what's going
on.

Thanks,

Leo

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someone has hacked into my account and has gotten my personal informationlike my address, phone number, and name. I deleted the account. But, now i am recieving stuff in the mail and i am expected to pay for it. What am i supposed to do?

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Contact the authorities.

Thanks,

Leo

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Someone is sending very threatening emails using my email address through a website called deadfake.com. They have not actually hacked into my email acct. but are able to disguise theirselves as me by using my email address on this webisite which sends out the emails. I am receiving messages from people telling me that they are contacting the police due to ''my'' threatening emails... it's very scarey and I don't know how to stop it.

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You can't.

If it's serious enough I would register a complaint with
appropriate athorities so as to be on record that it's not
you who's doing the harassing. Perhaps even persue whatever
legal action is available to stop the culprit. But the
authorities will have to be involved for that.

Leo

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Receiving spam emails about purchases I didn't make. Afraid someone is using my email address. I changed my password already. I tried to delete the account but cannot.

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