Problem with Yahoo Mail

[Dalecamino]

I keep getting emails from a couple of my contacts, that are bogus with links to sites like, online drug sales. My contacts are close friends & relatives. They are NOT sending these emails to me. I've been deleting without opening, but I may be missing a genuine email by doing that. How does this happen? And, what can I do to stop this? Please help!

 

[Andrew_K99]

If it is only your contacts sending you emails then your account has probably been hacked.

Try changing your password and see if that fixes it.

AK

 

[Seer]

Anyone can spoof an email just by making up an email. If that email is on any website it can be read and used by almost anyone.

 

[nativewooder]

There was a virus, trojan, worm, etc. a while back that would invade your mailing list and then be transported whenever you sent an email to the address's mailing list, and on and on and on. Don't remember what the name was but either Malware or AVG got rid of it for me.

 

[Dalecamino]

There was a virus, trojan, worm, etc. a while back that would invade your mailing list and then be transported whenever you sent an email to the address's mailing list, and on and on and on. Don't remember what the name was but either Malware or AVG got rid of it for me.

Yeh, I had AVG before switching to Microsoft Security Essentials.

 

[jd99]

Anyone can spoof an email just by making up an email. If that email is on any website it can be read and used by almost anyone.

Very True!

When I was teaching this tech stuff a lot of years ago, I had a class that taught hacking... now don't get the wrong idea it was to teach security so the students would understand how they do it.

Anyway the point is email spoofing is one of the easiest things in hacking to do.

Ya just have to know who is sending you stuff, and look at the spelling and grammar it's usally the biggest tell tell sign the email is from some spammer/hacker somewhere, they don't know how to translate to english that well.

 

[cnirenberg]

Chuck,
It's happened to us a few months ago. Apparently we "sent" emails to our Yahoo account mailing list on some male enhancement materials. Most thought the emails were a hoax. It was a PIA nonetheless. Had to change the password etc.

 

[Dalecamino]

Chuck,
It's happened to us a few months ago. Apparently we "sent" emails to our Yahoo account mailing list on some male enhancement materials. Most thought the emails were a hoax. It was a PIA nonetheless. Had to change the password etc.

Thanks Cris. I know it can't just be me. I just changed my password, so I'll go from there. See what happens. Seems the more I delete, they keep on coming. AGGRAVATING !