Kathy: What do I do if a spammer is sending messages from my Yahoo account?
I received several emails and calls that my contacts had received emails that I did not send. The emails were obviously spam.
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Answer by awesomeness
i know two people with the same problem. i would just make another email, thats what they did.
That problem can be caused by a few different things.
The simplest is that at some point someone obtained your ID and password and took all your contacts. From that point on they do not need your account. Anyone with a separate email program can use any address as the FROM address. There is no way to stop this method since they already have the list.
A second cause can be a script that you ran by clicking on a link on an email or going to an untrustworthy web site. This is probably a one time action and will not happen again.
A third cause can be a malware program that you somehow installed. When you access your email account it runs and sends out its own mail. You will have to run a virus checking program to find and remove it.
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Answer by buzzardfurClose your yahoo account and start another with a different username?
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