I know, isn't the title of my post a gross thing to read -- ?
I get these messages all the time FROM MY OWN ACCOUNT. So I am spamming myself!
Some spamming thing has hijacked my email address and is sending porn messages. I hate this. I've asked my service provider to help me fix it but they are unresponsive.
Do any of you know out there how to stop myself being a spammer?
9 comments:
You just have to ignore it and get over it. It happens all the time. No-one has hacked your account (0.99 probability), that is the main thing. They are just using your details as a fake "from" address.
Your service provider cannot fix this. It is nowhere near their servers and nothing at all to do with them. They are being unresponsive because they offer bad customer service. Good customer service would be to explain the problem to you before and after checking as far as they can that no-one has compromised your account.
Sometimes it even looks as if your address book has been hacked. This can be because they intercepted an email from you or to you and scraped the to and cc fields.
The thing is, was this spam accurate? Did it talk about what it talked about? Enquiring minds want to know.
I HAD A THING SEND EMAILS FROM MY ACOOUNT, IT WAS SPYWARE A GOOD CLEAN SORTED IT. GOOD LUCK. (BY THE WAY WHATS THE SECRET, I COULD DO WITH A TIP!)
So...? C'mon, spill already! What ARE the secrets?:):)
Thanks for your comments guys. Of course I didn't open the email and read it -- it was just the title and I deleted. I don't even want to know the secrets - so why I'm sending them to people is beyond me.
I'll leave it to Elizabeth's readers to speculate as to her reasons for not opening the mail!
You should, by the way, run a full anti-virus scan followed by an anti spyware scan. If you don't have a spyware remover, Spybot Search and Destroy is pretty thorough.
It is always possible that your PC has been compromised without your knowing it.
Are you sure this isn't a dissociative side effect of all that hormone play in the last post?
Jim, you are such a wit! I wonder if the two are connected...
Bring cakes?
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