Hello!! You've A MAIL (but I swear I didn't send it))

Seems to happen every so often .... not the first thread I've seen like that, but changing your password will hopefully take care of it. Only answer I have is hackers do this to steal from people and to send out spam. Who really knows how hackers do what they do ... except for other hackers.

Wow your contacts must have thought your english had become terrible .... I had them hack into mine and send my contacts all an email that I was stuck in London and needed money as I was mugged and everything was stolen.

Hope nobody falls for this stuff,

If you use that password for any other accounts you'd better rush to change them. One warrior here had her gmail account hacked, and soon for her Paypal account and other accounts had been breached as well because she used the same password for those other accounts.

Never use the same password on any important accounts. What is an important account? Any account you don't want someone else to access!

Also make sure you're using a good password: at least 12 characters and a mix of upper and lower case case letters, plus numbers and characters. Never use a real word. Here's a good example password: f3G*mY4@f^vaQ)2h

They don't need your password to send an email that looks like it is from you. All they have to do is place your email address in the from and reply to spot. I'm willing to bet that if you logged into your Hotmail (or whatever) account, you will not see that email in your sent file.

I wish these spammers would at least improve their english so it's not as painful when you receive these emails :p

Hopefully no one will fall for this. Once i had a similar pm in my myspace account, telling you can get tv for dirt cheap. After like a day their myspace account was deleted. For account i use different pw, but it always needto copy them since i cant remember the combination lol

Oh boy... I actually have this happen a lot. Because I have some websites where people can contact me directly via emails such as "info@(whatever my domain).com, etc, I tend to get spam emails to begin with.

When I, myself, began to receive spam for Heaven-knows-what - from... guess who? From MYSELF! From my own website emails...It began to drive me nuts. I contacted my web host, my email host... you name it.

No one could help me. The only thing we were able to discern was that a lot of the emails were originating from an ISP in Brazil.

Now, why would I (female) need Viagra or whatever else they were trying to sell me send the spam TO me, FROM me? Do they honestly think I'll click on it? Yikes!

Finally, what I did (and what may help you) is that I made every single one of my email addresses "unclickable." That is, if a person REALLY wants to contact me, he or she needs to physically copy or type my email. I've changed the addresses... I have also worded them such as:
"Due to increasing email fraud, in order to protect you, my customer, as well as myself, you must physically type my email address into your message to me. It is info ("at" sign - you know what I mean) mydomain ("dot" - again, you get it) com. Thank you for your understanding, and for protecting all of us from scammers and spammers."

Stuff like that.

Sadly, neither my website host nor my email provider could help. But, I hope this suggestion can help - if only a little.

Cheers!
Kath

Here's what i'll do:

Scroll down to the bottom of your gmail account.
You'll see:

Last account activity: 5 days ago at IP ________. Details

Click details.

OR

On the Spam email click the arrow down beside the reply button seen on the right hand corner.

You can report phishing or click "show original" copy/paste it and send the full headers of these unlawful messages to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov.