Someone sending SPAM using your name and email address

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Has anyone else seen people sending out SPAM making it look like it's YOU that the mail is coming from even though you didn't send it out? I have received three of these just today, and short of changing my email address I'd sure love to find a way to stop it.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Originally Posted by Frank Sousa View Post

    Has anyone else seen people sending out SPAM making it look like it's YOU that the mail is coming from even though you didn't send it out? I have received three of these just today, and short of changing my email address I'd sure love to find a way to stop it.
    Have your web host setup an SPF record for the domain. It goes a long way towards stopping this low level spoofing.
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  • Profile picture of the author amunt
    I had one today as well. A bit disturbing. I don't understand how it's done - it's not hacked as you often see with hotmail accounts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior X
    I've had spam and/or phishing emails purporting to be from my friends and
    family. That's even weirder. I'm guessing they must have lifted the
    information off of FB
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    I got a few of those today. In my case, the bounces were the result of the spammer setting one of my role addresses as the Return-Path. It did not otherwise point to any of my domains. Not much chance of anyone getting blocked anywhere with competent admins under those circumstances.

    The spam itself was for a dating site in Turkey.
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  • Profile picture of the author kolled
    I have also received two in as many days. Both were purportedly sent from my gmail email address to the same email address! One of these emails actually appears in my sent folder. Is this a case of the password being cracked or what? Surely, this world is full of weird characters.
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  • Profile picture of the author wpxo
    Yea I see it happen every once in a while. If emails are coming from your friend that they never sent and are just spam, their computer might be infected with some malware.
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    • Profile picture of the author Anthony J Namata
      Originally Posted by wpxo View Post

      Yea I see it happen every once in a while. If emails are coming from your friend that they never sent and are just spam, their computer might be infected with some malware.
      Malware even when your computer is virus-free? The weird thing is, they actually mail to addresses in YOUR email address book. Someone shed some light on this. Please.
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