Hi, All: You can check the message header and find out who used your account to do this kind of nasty activities. There are three possibilities:
1. You account name and password was stolen by someone else, which means the e-mail is really sent from your account. You need to change your password right away. 2. People search your account in the yellow page, chat room or something else. Then they setup an account using your account info like First Name, Last Name, e-mail address, and return path to do SPAM. In this case, they do not know your account name and password. You can find these infomation out by checking the Internet Headers of the e-mail message. They will show you the last transaction of this message. (From where to where, who to whom). There is no way your can protect since you also want to receive e-mails from someone you might not have record for. If you do, you can setup some kind of policy (E-mail filtering) with your e-mail reader so that you can ignore this kind of e-mail. Hope these information help. Please correct me if I am wrong. Good luck. JiaQuan Ma Drexel University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: someone stole my mail account to spam others :-( > Last night, I got an undeliverable mail notification from an automatic reply > saying that my mail was unable to deliever to so and so (invalid e-mail > address) with an attachment. > > The attachment shows that the mail was sent out using my mail account. > > In this scenario, what would be my approach? > > Any comments are appreciated. > ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97
