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April 2, 2008I’m confused. I have an AOL email address and about once every other day, I get an email from my email address advertising vitamins.
When I click on the status bar, it just looks like I sent it to myself, but I definately didn’t. I assume someone is hacking into my account, but why in the world would they send me one spam once every day or so?
What am I supposed to do?
I have yet another email that says, “Replica Swiss Watches”, and again, when I click on the return email address and reply, it sends me to my own email address.
Horaayy..there are 6 comment(s) for me so far ;)
try changing you password.
very weird…
Change your password.
If that doesn’t work then it could be a bug in the system in which case your pretty much screwed unless you contact AOL telling then about the problem and hope they can sort it out for you.
It is trivially easy to fake a “From” address in an e-mail. Obviously, the spammers are filling in the “From” and “To” fields with the same address in an effort to bypass spam protection. They don’t have to hack your account - they only need to know your e-mail address.
AOL is notoriously bad at stopping spam, too. Just keep deleting the stuff - there’s really no way to stop it.
you should use Yahoo email addresses as it allows you to create “fake” accounts that you can set up so that all email to that “fake” account is under review for a week and then, it’s gone!
BobApril is right though, the more your email passes around, the more spam bots latch onto your email address!
Most spam is sent from infected PCs, but the malware tries to hide the identity of the infected computer. To that end, it spoofs (forges) the Sender address.
A little more detail: The malware searches the infected PC’s hard drive for e-mail addresses and sends spam out to them. But it also uses some of these addresses for spoofing purposes. So if you get spam from yourself, that means someone with your e-mail address has an infected computer.
What can you do about it? Not much. But if only a few people have your e-mail address, you might try letting them know about the problem. One of them has an infected PC.
i do to and its driving me nuts…had to look what to do and this what i have found…i’m afraid to even open scared could be a virus..wow little things that freak us out! scary world!!