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

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Hi!!
Someone has hacked my email address and have changed my password and my personal information and my secret question... I can't log into my own email account. Plz help me recover my password.. I need it anyhow. The id that has been hacked is
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someone has gotten into my ex boyfriends account, as well as mine... and has been sending emails and lying emails to my current boyfriend... how can i find out who is doing this. i have changed the password, as well as the ex changing his password, but the damage is done and theres nothing i can do about it now... how can i find out who did this??

Chances are that you cannot.

hello, someone has hacked into my hotmail account and has changed the password and my secret question and i havnt ever given out my password or secret question to anyone. please please and please could you tell me what to do :( and reply to this email address [Personal Information Removed] and the account which has been hacked into and cant log into is [Personal Information Removed] please could you try your best and tell me what to do thank you :)

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Is it conceivable that someone could send an email from a Yahoo account without having access to the password or computer? An email originating from Yahoo was replied to with the format "name wrote:" + the text in the body of the reply. The account owner/email sender claims he has no knowledge of it and never sent it. How could that be possible? I appreciate any information. Thanks.

Quote possible. It's very easy to type up a message body that looks like whatever you want.

Well there is one thing known as Full Headers which contains many informations that might be helpful in locating the sender. Of course you will not be able to pin point a person, but still it can tell you about the geographical location and other info depending upon the email server and headers. If you get the IP address, one can use web sites like "VisualRoute" to trace its location.

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