Received email from my own email address asking for bitcoin
My email is sending out spam how do i stop it.
Edward McCrea is “ getting returns of emails I didn’t send… How do I prevent this?”
What’s worse than getting spam? Unwittingly sending it.
Receiving email from myself that i didn't send
When bogus and probably malware-laden advertising goes out in your name, you look bad. And you get flooded with bounced messages from dead addresses that some crook attempted to spam in your name.
The good news: You’re not sending out spam.
Neither is your computer or your IP address. But the bad news can still be pretty bad.
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If spam is going out from your email address, the address has been either spoofed or hijacked. Either way, the spam isn’t going out from your computer, and probably not from the criminal’s computer, either.
It’s probably going out from an unknowing victim’s malware-infected PC.
Spoofing an email address is, in a sense, forging it. The criminal sends out mail with your From address, even though they have no access to your account.
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