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

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Which IM client are you using?

I changed from CS to AOL on 07/02/2004. Within a few days, my address had been compromised and was responsible for quite a few referrals for several problems. At Cs, the same problem existed and I changed my password; to no avail, because the stolen address kept being used. I have used the above "handle" ever since two-way radios became popular with no problem, but this experience has disappointed me to no end - especially wince the last incident has mentioned a virus.

I am receiving mail from it says this address has a permeanent fatal errors. It is coming from(The orginal message was received at Wed.27 )ct2004 07:51:02-0400(EDT)from bonet.baldwin.k12.ga.us(168.10.181.50) Down in the email it say 550MAILBOX NOT FOUND, 550User unknown
I have been receiving this same leter for months and months I have be4n just deleting it out but then someone said it might have a virus hidden, please help me.
JLWL3@aol.com

It certainly could contain a virus, so deleting it is definitely the right thing to do. It's probably being sent *by someone else* who is infected with a virus. My advice: delete and ignore.

This has happened to me so many times and everytiem it happens I look back on this article for condolences. Today it has happened again, and every day for the past week my e-mail has sent virsues to hudnreds of people and companies I don't know. Sometimes people in other countries even as well professional companies. I am actually taking the time to send each and everyone an e-mail telling them it was not me. However, I think I should forget it. Their are hundreds of people and having to click the message to get the e-mail and send another e-mail has gotten to be a real pain.

Every day I someone is using my e-mail address to send hudnreds of messages and viruses to people. I have gotten hundreds of messages saying that a virus has been detected in tons of messages, but still the body of the message is sent, and they write messages with viruses attached. I know how you feel.

im so happy that i found this site, this will be the solution of all the problems that happened to my email accounts. My email ad has been hacked by someone. I tried my best to get it back but i failed. Please, help me. My ID was enday143@yahoo.com.
I also received an email from evedoods22@yahoo.com telling that my mother died.The name appeared was my cousin's. She denied her email ad is different not evedoods22@yahoo.com but her name appear on the senders name. Can you find out who's this guy?
My email ad : edelinahenriquez@hotmail.com

You want this article: http://ask-leo.com/someone_has_stolen_my_email_account_what_can_i_do_to_get_it_back.html

The best thing to do when you suspected someone is using your e-mail to send spam is to tell the victim to read the e-mail header. E-mail header contain the IP address of the sender as well as the recipient IP and other useful information.

Not only virus can steal or grab your e-mail and use it by someone for spamming. I, as a web developer who managed www.ex-designz.net have had dealt this kind of problem before. I caught the the person who used my e-mail. How did he do it? Simple, he created an Active Server Page form mail, and on the "FROM" field, he put the value="mymail.com" and send it. Whoever receive the e-mail would think it was comming from me. This kind of technique had been use by many webmaster who knows server-script programming.

www.ex-designz.net

Dexter

Hello,

I would just like to know how come
there isn't anything that can be
done about viruses that send out
email.

Are these people just trying to
bother people.

Or are they spammers. If they are
spammers they must be trying to
sell something. And would have
to be using a return address for
people to order from.

So if sending a virus is illegal.

How come the police don't go after them

Thank You

Jim

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