Update: Someone is Using my Yahoo Email Account to Spam

Hi all,

I received a response from Yahoo regarding my earlier post. This is the response:

"The sender seems to have forged your email address in the "reply-to"
and/or the "from" field of the message they sent out. Please know that
we are currently aware of this type of spam and are investigating it."

Yes indeed, someone forged my email address. It directs to a store selling imitation Rolex Watches and the like. Uhm, ticked off? You betcha. Especially as I have never heard of this online store and someone obviously picked up my email address and is using it to cover his or her own scruple-lacking butt!

Yes, I did use a hyphen. I read that hyphens are going by the wayside according to this news story but hey, I still like 'em sometimes. They remind me of 3rd grade.

If you are a victim of email forgery as I seem to be, take action. Report it. Do NOT let your email account be sanctioned or deleted due to the actions of others.

I'm Too Tired to Think right now to tell you what to do. I think I'll save that one for my cuppa joe in the morning.

Enjoy the weekend, all, and be well.

M.

Someone Is Using My Email Account For Spam!

Greetings, all.

Just a warning to those of you who use Yahoo Mail: I recently found out that someone is using my Yahoo email address to send Spam emails!!! No, I'm not spamming, this is what happened.

Last week I noticed a large number of "undeliverable" email notifications in my mailbox. At first I thought it was some kind of spam or virus email so I didn't open the notifications because I knew that I hadn't sent any emails recently. Certainly not that many. As the number of notifications increased, I opened one out of curiosity to see who I had supposedly emailed. Well, the email was addressed to someone I don't know, hawking a product I've never heard of! I then went to my Bulk (Spam) folder and lo and behold, there's an email to me from me hawking some nonsense! Knowing that I hadn't sent it, I contacted Yahoo Support.

I don't want to lose this email account because of the actions of some unscrupulous email spammer. I've had this particular account for ten years and it has all of my friends, relatives, and acquaintances in the address book. I sure hope that the people at Yahoo can get to the bottom of this.

So, my message to you is to be wary if you start noticing these "undeliverable" email notifications, especially if you receive numerous notices when you haven't sent that many emails. It's possible that someone is using your email address to spam. Spamming is against Yahoo's TOS, and I'm afraid that my account will be deleted over this, even though I did not send them. That is why I reported it in the hopes that this can be resolved before my account is sanctioned.

I checked online, and it seems that this is happening to other people as well. Google "forged email address" or "undeliverable email spam" and you will see that this is a common practice for some unethical scumbags. I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty upset to lose my account because some dirtbag spammer is using my address.

Why do people do things like that, huh? I sure hope that whoever did this gets what is coming to them. I will keep you posted on the outcome with Yahoo support.

Be aware of this in case it is happening to you as well.

Take care and enjoy the day, all.

M