How did I receive Spam from my own Yahoo email address?

Question

I just received two emails from my own Yahoo email address. How did they do that? Does somebody have my password?
Thanks
Roger

Answer 1

http://www.sendfakemail.net/

Answer 2

They're most likely just spam. Spammers have taken to using other names from their mailing lists as the "from" addresses in their mailings so that if they are rejected by the original target, they will hit a second target on the bounce. 99.9% of the time, that's what is happening. The best solution to this is to avoid getting on spammers' lists in the first place, and use an email client with good spam filtering capabilities. I prefer Thunderbird myself, both for its filtering and because, unlike Outlook, it can't be hijacked by email viruses. (whoever thought allowing emails to run scripts in Outlook was a good idea anyway?) Freemail systems like Yahoo have decent spam filtering, but it's not nearly as configurable as something client-side like Thunderbird.

Prevention: Never expose your email address online, not on the Web, not on Usenet, not anywhere. If you have to sign up for something, and there's absolutely no way around it, use a throwaway email address -- a freemail account, a temporary address at a domain you own (you can own and host your own domain name for less per year than the cost of a night at the movies nowadays), anything. Never, ever, ever, ever follow "unsubscribe" instructions in spam; spammers use that to validate you as a live person *and* a sucker.

The "From" line in an email is really meaningless. It's just what the email client told the mailserver to put there, and it can be anything you want it to be. I could send you mail as [e-mail] just by typing that in the proper spot. For example, support@(my business) and webmaster@(my business) are really the same email account; I just switch the "From" as needed depending on whether what I am replying to was a general tech support question or a website problem.

Answer 3

there is a way to change how the sender's email addy looks, even tho they arent really in your acct. alot of spammers and hackers will do this just to get you to open it. just delete the email.