I just sent an e-mail to Yahoo! customer care but I don't know how long it will take them to respond. For about the past week I've been getting Delivery Status Notification (Failure) messages for e-mails I did NOT send! The e-mails I'm supposedly sending out are for a Viagra type product and include a link for "misoi" - which I'm hesitant to follow. I changed my account password after the first batch I got -- but I have more from over the weekend.
Is there anything I can do about this?
2007-01-08 01:29:48 · 8 answers · asked by thatgirl 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I got a spate of them... and it's not *my* email that was sending them.
Someone is using your email as a spoof 'return to' address when they create their spam. What they want is for people to click the link, not for them to reply to you. It 'just' helps them to avoid being filtered out as spam 'cos they come from lost of users.
Not much you can do about it... unless you read the mail headers and work out where they are coming from and get the originator's ISP to strike their account.
In my experience they stop happening after a while... a few weeks.
2007-01-08 01:35:39 · answer #1 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first thing you should do is change your password. Next delete all cookies and temporary files. Next run an anti-spyware application to get rid of all tracking devices which could have invaded your computer.
If the e-mails still continue and/or you want to take all precautions contact yahoo customer service. I say contact them as your last resort because may lose access to your email for some time or lose saved messages I'm not sure how this would affect you.
Also it could be a spoof on you to get you to click on the link since the messages aren't actually sent but come back to you as failed delivery notifications. Never ever click on those links that confirms your address to invaders and allows a tracking cookie to be placed in your internet browser.
2007-01-14 04:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by Bonita Applebaum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe you were a victim of phishing. its is when you get sent to a website such as yahoo mail and you input your user ID and password. what you don't realize is that it is a clone site and you just sent your info to someone who is using your email to market their product. try changing your password. make it complicated. if your password is only letters, add some numbers to it or vice versa. maybe even throw in a question mark in there. as for the phishing, when you are going to put your info, make sure the adress bar on the top says mail.yahoo or whatever.
2007-01-14 08:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by Random guy number 1988 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 strategies-- first, determine to look in case your account has been hacked into, and if it has, then near it and start a brand new one. My 2d idea might be to create a robust-ample password that's unattainable to bet, making use of a blend of phrases and numbers, and as for the numbers, greater than four might be well, because it makes it more difficult to bet what your password is.
2016-09-03 18:06:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sent a similar thing to an ISP and they shut my account down my 72 hours. Sounds like a server bot or Spider.
You Must contact Yahoo email, they can do something, but you may not like what they do... I certainly did not.
2007-01-08 01:35:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-08 06:14:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes a few days.
If you are receiving spam, the spam goes into a Spam folder on the folders list.
2007-01-13 06:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by markusfarkus33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its spam thats been spoofed with your email address (if its showing you sent it in from part)
all you can realy do is report to the isp of the sender
2007-01-08 01:35:52 · answer #8 · answered by great one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋