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Email Spam Help

#1 Postby CajunMama » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:22 pm

Somehow my email account is sending out spam. I know because it's being sent from me to me. Help!!!!!!!! What could be causing this? I run spybot, avg, adaware. Cox.net filtered it out as spam. :spam:
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Re: Email Spam Help

#2 Postby Aslkahuna » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:12 pm

You've been hacked and your e-mail account has been hijacked. Need to get with your provider and get your account changed or change e-mail providers and close the account.

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Re: Email Spam Help

#3 Postby lurkey » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:34 pm

Aslkahuna wrote:You've been hacked and your e-mail account has been hijacked. Need to get with your provider and get your account changed or change e-mail providers and close the account.

Steve


Steve,

The one of the accounts was the one provided by her ISP (She asked in chat the other night). CM-- change your passwords on all the accounts and see if it stops.
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#4 Postby CajunMama » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:43 pm

I changed my password on my cox account. We'll see what happens. Thank you so much for your help.
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Re: Email Spam Help

#5 Postby Stephanie » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:58 pm

I've seen that happen to mine as well though they land in the Spam bulk folder too.

Off to change my password. Thanks!
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Re: Email Spam Help

#6 Postby sunny » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:57 am

Same thing happened to me CajunMama - I also have cox.
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Re: Email Spam Help

#7 Postby Stephanie » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:25 pm

I have yahoo.

Ever since I've changed my password which I had since the very beginning, my bulk mail folder isn't as full everytime I log in.
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