Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ??? ( Archived) (29)

Sep 20, 2010 10:41 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Medsummer
MedsummerMedsummerflopping around on the beach, Liguria Italy78 Threads 8 Polls 1,682 Posts
I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?
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Sep 20, 2010 11:50 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
marc62
marc62marc62Kalispell, Montana USA3 Threads 274 Posts
It happens every now and then, also with providers other than Yahoo. It's a way spammers use to trick the spam filters.
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Sep 20, 2010 11:51 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Swissblueeyes
SwissblueeyesSwissblueeyesa lake, Michigan USA13 Threads 3,371 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?
rolling on the floor laughing Not yet..What have you been smoking lately?
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Sep 21, 2010 12:05 AM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Wow_Factor
Wow_FactorWow_FactorLondon, Greater London, England UK45 Threads 3,698 Posts
Funny you should say that. I got one on my main AOL email account from me to me, spamming for some computer company a couple of weeks ago.

I absolutely freaked out and thought that someone had hacked into my email account where I have info that is confidential.

I rang AOL who said it was possible that someone could have hacked in and they asked me to do a Malware scan, Spybot scan and AVG scan all of which I had already installed on my pc. AOL also asked me to change my password that logs me in to my account.
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Sep 21, 2010 12:07 AM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
plainlyjune
plainlyjuneplainlyjuneLegazpi City, Bicol Philippines12 Threads 2 Polls 8,175 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?
yahoo is hacked from time to time. My friends send me messages containing links to some online ads and they don't know about it. dunno
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Dec 19, 2010 1:44 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
JeanMarlow
JeanMarlowJeanMarlowMiddle of Nowhere, California USA17 Threads 815 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?
Has never happened to me. Seems very wierd.confused
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Dec 19, 2010 1:45 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
JAN_is
JAN_isJAN_isMurcia city centre, Murcia Spain109 Threads 3,849 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?


Yes I´ve had a few of those in my yahoo account. dunno
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Dec 19, 2010 1:45 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Ccincy
CcincyCcincyCincinnati, Ohio USA77 Threads 20,535 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?


Nope.I've had the reverse happen and had to change email providers.
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Dec 19, 2010 1:47 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Sunnydaze14
Sunnydaze14Sunnydaze14Dublin, Ireland105 Threads 3 Polls 2,870 Posts
You know, the first sign of madness is talking to yourself, the second sign is answering yourself back.
You're only half way there laugh wave
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Dec 19, 2010 1:50 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Buffy327
Buffy327Buffy327Somewhere, Georgia USA5 Threads 1,527 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?


R U sure that ur email has not been high jacked? Is ur address book still there?
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Dec 19, 2010 1:50 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
suggasugga
suggasuggasuggasuggaLos Angeles, California USA8 Threads 1,267 Posts
Medsummer: I've started getting mail from myself that I haven't written where it is showing my address as the sender.
I haven't opened any of them as I know it's from some place I don't want to go.
Has anyone else started getting emails from their own address?
There's scrooge around here somewhere wow thats creepy sorry to hear this Happy holidays comfort
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Dec 19, 2010 2:34 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
lifeisadream
lifeisadreamlifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico156 Threads 20 Polls 16,713 Posts
plainlyjune: yahoo is hacked from time to time. My friends send me messages containing links to some online ads and they don't know about it.


Same here.
Once I got one "suppossily" from my son with the subject:
I am financially secure, would not you like to be?

laugh

I wish he were.
But I have not gotten any from myself, yet.

hug
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Dec 19, 2010 2:38 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
faded_dino
faded_dinofaded_dinounknown, Tennessee USA13 Threads 1 Polls 1,674 Posts
never happened to me, but I change my password very often and even change accounts now and then......grin
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Dec 19, 2010 5:55 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
Correct Medsummer

There is a movement, especially in USA by the FBI and CIA to look directly into our emails because of 911.

The solution is simple. Change your email address and they can't trace you.

We are also better off to have a landline connection rather than to broadcast our conversations by wireless.

DO NOT open emails unless you are sure of the sender. This is how computer viruses are transmitted.

Personally, I have an unlisted phone number that scammers still get into. Always use an answering machine and don't answer the phone live. Listen to the message of who is calling first...and then you can pick-up and talk to them in the middle of the message.
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Dec 24, 2010 3:00 AM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
Merry Christmas Medsummer

You are a great man.

Lindsey Buckingham "Big Love" Live Ac...

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Dec 24, 2010 3:11 AM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Alexiahua
AlexiahuaAlexiahuao, Aland Islands Finland1 Posts
yes, i got too, so weired when i noticed it. i do not know what the link is, at least, feel so embarrassed my ex-bf is on the list of receiversfrustrated

anyway, the passport is changed right away
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Dec 24, 2010 3:28 AM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
Ccincy
CcincyCcincyCincinnati, Ohio USA77 Threads 20,535 Posts
Last night a friend of mine recieved an email supposedly from himself.


I told him that it proves I was right about him talking to himself.
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Dec 24, 2010 1:20 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
I was scammed a couple of months ago. I purchased a bumper sticker for my car. I had to give them my email address to complete the transaction. A couple of weeks later, my Bank called me. What these scammers had done was to reverse the letters of my email address to take money out of my Bank Account.

My Bank caught this transaction in time. It came out of Miami, Florida.

There is not much that we can do other than to make sure that you have insurance with the Bank. It is too costly to prosecute them, because they will change their own email address, which becomes untraceable.


Funk 49 - Joe Walsh

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Dec 24, 2010 1:30 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
tomcatwarne
tomcatwarnetomcatwarneOcean City, Plumouth, Devon, England UK289 Threads 7 Polls 17,106 Posts
johnaustin123: I was scammed a couple of months ago. I purchased a bumper sticker for my car. I had to give them my email address to complete the transaction. A couple of weeks later, my Bank called me. What these scammers had done was to reverse the letters of my email address to take money out of my Bank Account.

My Bank caught this transaction in time. It came out of Miami, Florida.

There is not much that we can do other than to make sure that you have insurance with the Bank. It is too costly to prosecute them, because they will change their own email address, which becomes untraceable.

Funk 49 - Joe Walsh



I don't understand how that transaction can be carried out
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Dec 24, 2010 1:41 PM CST Yahoo mail-emails from yourself ???
johnaustin123
johnaustin123johnaustin123Eastlake, Ohio USA76 Threads 16 Polls 4,330 Posts
Greets tomcatwarne

In the USA, we have FIDC insurance that protects the US Banks from fraud by scammers. This is mostly automatic, but some Banks require a signature agreement.

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