From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: March 22, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Ask Leo Question - someone's sending from my hotmail address
>
> Leo,
> I am recieving “spam” email from an address that looks like
> my email address in hotmail. At first I thought that they just changed
> one letter with ASCI, however, hotmail will not allow me to block it
> because they state it is MY email address… how is it possible
> that someone other then myself would send me an email using my own
> email account? i have changed my password to some very rediculious
> phrases and yet i am still getting the "spam".
>
> Some more info:
>
> I am not just looking at the "from" email address rather i am refering
> to the actual return addy - i have tried to block it and hotmail says
> that i can not block my own address, so this email is actually from my
> address.
>
> a spam filer will not work as i am unallowed to block emails from
> myself.
>
> i am currently checking my email on hotmail’s web based service,
> i am not using outlook or any other similar service to download the
> emails to my pc.
>
> I have scanned my pc using avg, SUPERAntiSpyware,Panda, adaware,
> a-squared, and spybot... and other then the normal temp stuff, i was
> clean.
>
> any any ANY help you (or others) may offer would be greatly
> appreciated.
That's email spoofing, and there's actually very little you can do. This
article discusses:
http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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