lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 09:32:26 AM new
Help! I woke up this morning to find over 100 returned mail items for my Yahoo account. I bought their 25 MG space so I could use it for auctions without running out.
After checking these out I see they are being sent by different user names but are using my email address to send???
Ex: Sent by Juneah <[email protected]>
bethann <[email protected]> etc. with over 20 user names but all seem to be links to me!
Each email was sent to multiple people and each one seems to have a different user name just my email name.
I don't know what is going on, but they all involve a $30 cash prize and I am sure it is a scam that they are using my address somehow to do this. I am getting returns at the rate of 5 a minute and no telling how many are going through!!! What is going on, how can I contact Yahoo -- what do I do????
This is scary!
I changed my Yahoo password but don't know if that will help -- this really is happening to me and I don't know how to stop it. Do you know how to close a Yahoo mail account? Any one know what I should do?
Anyone else ever have this happen?
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trai
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posted on May 10, 2002 10:20:15 AM new
Best to contact yahoo about this problem, sounds like some one is using your email addy to sent spam.
"Do you know how to close a Yahoo mail account?"
Go into your mail account and it should tell you there.
Maybe try to change to a new email addy.
[ edited by trai on May 10, 2002 10:23 AM ]
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lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 10:29:12 AM new
First thing I found was to call Yahoo support they charge you $1.99 a minute. I didn't want to do that.
As far as closing account -- it just says they will close automatically if not used for 4 months.
I'm still getting returned mail but maybe it will stop since I changed my password which is the only thing I could think of to do. I was getting the returns every minute or two and now I have only gotten 2 in the last 30 minutes.
This is the strangest thing I have ever had happen to me and I have been on the net since 1996.
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sun818
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posted on May 10, 2002 10:47:43 AM new
A spammer randomly picked your e-mail as the "from" or "reply-to" e-mail address. All the spam e-mail that are bouncing are coming back to you. You will likely get many angry e-mails from recipients of the spam.
Under your Yahoo Web Mail, go to Options, Filter. Then create a rule that moves all mail containing the subject "SPAM" to the trash. Hope that helps.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on May 10, 2002 11:47:41 AM new
You may have a virus.
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lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 12:30:09 PM new
That was the first thing I thought. I have ran Norton and it didn't find anything. I keep it turned off because it interferes with photo submissions.
Also, as soon as I changed my Yahoo password the returns stopped coming back to me. Maybe just a coincidence but I'm hoping I stopped it with that.
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sun818
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posted on May 10, 2002 12:40:41 PM new
[ edited by sun818 on May 10, 2002 01:53 PM ]
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lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 01:10:11 PM new
AOL just returned one of my emails as "spam" and would not deliver. They also said they had blocked all mail from my server (Yahoo?) until they prevented such mailings from their location.
If this is true, then no mail from Yahoo can be sent to AOL? or just mail I try to send?
Anyway, now that one was actually returned intact, I can see it is all from an online casino. Says the recipient won $30 and click here to play.
I just can't make it stop -- mail is still being returned. Same subject line but many user id's. I don't know what to do.
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sun818
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posted on May 10, 2002 01:15:25 PM new
PEBKAC
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lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 01:22:13 PM new
What does that mean?
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caffeitalia
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posted on May 10, 2002 01:47:10 PM new
What has happened is your e-mail address was stolen by one of those spam companies. It is basically the same as identity theft. It is quite common with e-mail addy's as I had it happen to me a while back. Not much you can do except live with it or change your e-mail address. I get e-mails from me two or three times a month from those thieves. And the worst part is the company they are representing don't even know that the spam company is stealing addresses most of the time.
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sun818
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posted on May 10, 2002 01:53:07 PM new
Under your Yahoo Web Mail, go to Options, Filter. Then create a rule that moves all mail containing the subject "SPAM" to the trash.
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lindajean
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posted on May 10, 2002 02:46:12 PM new
Sun818--that might prevent me from getting angry letters, but I want it stopped so no one gets them thinking it is from me.
I am trying to talk to Yahoo but have been on hold for over 25 minutes now -- and it isn't toll free!
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sun818
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posted on May 10, 2002 03:13:28 PM new
lindajean, someone "spoofed" your e-mail address. This means a spammer pretended to send e-mail as you. Obviously, you didn't send it, but all bounced e-mails will automatically be replied back to you. Other than filtering out those bounce messages, there is nothing you can do. If you ask Yahoo, they will give you the same answer. Its unfortunate, you are just an innocent bystander in the spam war.
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