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

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basically not only is someone using my e-mail without persmission, but some days they let me log in to just show they already opened it up and they other days my passwords is not reconized. which would be [passwords removed]

I really need some advice. My ex-fiancee' has been without my knowledge having all my email to 3 accounts (even the one he had no knowledge of) sent to his personal email and his work email accounts.
Before he sends them to me! If I click "Show Original" his address(s)are right there first! How do I stop him and how (this is really important) did he even do this?
Big Thanks

There have been several occassions where emails have been sent from my hotmail account to each individual in my address book; AND the emails are in my sent folder. All of these emails are some type of advertisement for a product or 'store'. This doesn't seem to fit the example above since the email is being sent from my address to the people in my address book. Would this signify that there is a virus on my computer (my virus scan shows nothing)? Or is it being done by the advertisers in the emails. If so, is there a way to do anything about it? Thanks.

You are correct, if the emails show up in your Sent Mail folder, this is very different: Your account has been compromised. Either someone has access to your account (change your password right away), or your PC has been compromized by a virus or spyware.

27-Oct-2009

i had this guy spam me fron germany and the next day i turned my pc on and i needed to reboot because it had crashed eny tips to prevent it? cheers

also he hacked into my u tube account

When I arrived at home this am,I had a e-mail from a buddy,It was bad but I never sent it.Furthmore another friend got all kinds of personal information about my kids.The only way they could have gotten this info was to be inside my computer.I am pretty computer savy and run anti-virus and check my ports But on this one I am lost.

hai ..
am not sent any mail to other but that person received mail from my user name.in that from part my name is rite but mail id is not correct but in that mail id was am confused how mit possibe? pls clear it..

Please read the article you just commented on. It talks about exactly this scenario.

01-Nov-2009

Some one had hacked into my 3 email address used for Business
Been using this one for years
use this with my girlf.

Can this account be reset, or destroyed as I have business information on the , and contacts on this one, and the other 2 are private.
Please Help as I have 3 Hotmail account and all 3 were hacked.

Not that I'm aware of.

07-Nov-2009

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