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My Yahoo address is getting spoofed bounce-backs. How do I stop this?

Today I found myself with more that 500 bounce-back e-mails in my Yahoo account. I have set up a filter to send most of them into a separate folder, Just In Case.

But this is bogus. How do I stop this? I am obviously being spoofed. From what I can tell it is through my web page. I set up my web page through Yahoo. The e-mail connected with the page is this account, although it would actually be typed out with the domain name of the web page. That is why I trace it back to my page. The messages reference that domain, not Yahoo.

1) How to do I stop it?

2) How do I report it?

Yahoo's "Help" pages do not address spoofing at all. As a matter of fact a search for the term comes up empty. So I need your help.

Thanks

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Try changing your password. May or may not help the problem. I had someone who hacked one of my emails, but all they did was use it to send span and i got the bounce back emails too. I changed my passwords and that put an end to it.

    If you have your email going through Outlook or another program on your comp, you may want to check and make sure you dont have a virus of somesort

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    One probability would be that the spammer has tampered together with your trade electronic mail touch cope with. If that was once performed he would receive the brand new password at any time when you difference it. Is there any hyperlink in time among your receiving one more unsolicited mail, clicking at the hyperlink inside it, and the unsolicited mail sending itself? The spammers have malicious scripts that may run from their webpages. If you're logged onto your webmail, then the script has entry to do matters adding sending unsolicited mail out of your account. That is likely one of the motives why to difference a few settings like your password or trade touch electronic mail Yahoo asks to your password once more. The script could hit a roadblock there if it does now not truthfully understand your password. However the capabilities that don't require the further log in are probably prone.

  • 1 decade ago

    By posting your email address here or anywhere online you have left yourself open to this kind of annoyance.

    There is nothing you can do about that now other than getting a different email address.

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