ChatterBank6 mins ago
Unusual E-Mails
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I started to block lots of sources of junk mail on Outlook recently, but now I've started to receive e-mails that say they come from me.
Has anyone had this experience or is this normal?
Has anyone had this experience or is this normal?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks for those responses. Damn I never thought of others getting similar messages "from me". The more I think about this, the more worrying it is!! You could be set up as any kind of criminal. I can't think how I could send a message from me purporting to be from someone else - I thought that wasn't possible? Is it something working from within my e-mail account?
As I understand it, there are programmes and servers that scan the internet looking for accounts to hack. They try for example to open our accounts using random passwords and they hit on some as someone somewhere will have that password. This happens more frequently to you if your password is not very cryptic. eg if your password is elvis or Michael Jackson, you'll be hacked most days!
So change the password and make sure you have a couple of numbers as well as letters but not too easy, so don't use name and birthyear for example.
So change the password and make sure you have a couple of numbers as well as letters but not too easy, so don't use name and birthyear for example.
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