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

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You're just getting spam, like everyone else. I'd simply
ignore 'em and move on.

Leo

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Leo: I hope you have heard of this scam but if not here's a new one for you. I am part of a committee that is putting on a high school reunion. The committee chair suggested I go to Yahoo.com and look into their "reunion groups" which I did. The only link they had to reunions was a website called "REUNIONS.com" to I clicked on the website. In order to access the information for your high school, you of course had to register, which I did. As I was looking at the information that they had, I thought I could use this information for say the next 90 days to get out notices to the people on Reunions.com list that went to my high school. So I paid by credit card 36 bucks for 90 days. When I hit submit, not only did they take my money but they stole my entire email address book from my computer!! without a password but I was signed in of course.
Within minutes I was receiving dozens of emails and phone calls from people livid about me giving out their email addresses, which I of course had to explain. This went on for two weeks! I wrote Reunion.com an angry note and told them they could keep my money (they had a no return policy anyway) and stick it where the sun didn't shine. They still send me emails about who has been trying to contact me but I won't open them as I am afraid that they will again steal my address book. I have changed my password. I don't know who to pass this information on to, other than everyone on my email list. Is there a website I can report this to or do I go to the police? Got any suggestions? Thanks for your time.

Tim

i am new at this computer stuff, but my husband and son have email accounts on our computer also, should we all change our passwords,we also have an email address for our church on this computer should we change that password also?

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It never hurts to change your password. Just make sure to
pick a good one.
http://ask-leo.com/whats_a_good_password.html

Leo

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I keep getting email on my windows mail and it says from me but in the right click property it says (may be forge)so do i need to report this to my ISP or not to worry .I can get the ip address on them.should I turn them in?

Hello Leo:
I am hoping you can help ma and advise me what to do. It was just brought to my attention that someone has been reading all my mail. I have my MSN address on all my important documents including my resume. Anyway, I applied for a position and all went well and the Manager said he would contact me either way. So about 3 weeks went by and I called him. He was very suprised that I called b/c he stated that he wanted to hire me but the reply to address on my email which is plavelle@dartbrokerage.com which is not MINE! I was puzzled and thanked him and decided to email myself and in the reply to section is this address and I noticed somehow they get a copy of my outgoing as well. I just contacted MSN and haven't heard back yet. However, I attempted to contact this Dart Brokerage which appears to be an insurance company by their website, but both my emails to the company and their employee plavelle@dartbrokerage.com both came back as undeliverable because their boxes were full. What the heck is this, and why? How can I remove them on the reply to? I checked all my settings and they are nowhere but they appear on all my mail???

Hi Leo,

I am getting emails from myself! I tried looking at the "source" but I'm on outlook. I checked my email online and tried to find the sender, but not much success there. Is someone disguising as me, or is my computer actually sending out mail to me AND to others?

Thanks..

I gave my x-wife my email address with hopes she would not call me anymoe and that she would send me emails instead. I was just informed that she could now use my email address to sign up for porn sites and such. Is this true and how will I be able to prove she was the one that used my email address.

Someone else is getting the same emails, I'm getting??? Apparently, we have the same email add.....is that possible??

When I checked my e-mail inbox today, I found that there were about 20 "Delivery Status Notification (failure)" messages. When I opened them, they all contained the same message, and it seems they got sent to everyone in my contact list (200+ addresses).
I checked my "sent" messages list, and there was no trace that I (or someone who might have hacked my account) had even sent the messages in the first place. The only reason I noticed that this had happened is because some of the addresses in my contact list don't exist anymore and the emails got bounced back to me.
I changed my password, but it seems more likely this is a virus problem. I have an up-to-date virus scanner, and it hasn't picked any up. Any ideas?
Cheers,
David

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