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My Yahoo email account is sending spam to all my contacts?
a virus is sending spam to all my yahoo contacts. How do I fix this?
3 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
The spammer could have obtained your password with phishing spam. Change your password. While you are in your account settings check for tampering with your alternate email contact address. That could be used to obtain new passwords.
Also abstain from clicking on links within your spam. Spammers' webpages can run malicious scripts. This runs within your browser and can tell webmail currently logged in within that browser to send spam.
- Anonymous5 years ago
they have your e mail tackle and the spammers use it to deliver others unsolicited mail. All you're able to do at this component isn't open it and proceed sending it on your unsolicited mail folder. in lots of circumstances they are going to become bored with it and it will circulate away. Mine finally did. I never open any attachments or messages ever, till it comes from a depended on source like your human beings for kin. as quickly as you open it up, it sends a approved respond to the spammer and that they have got been given you. additionally while they are able to redirect you to a diverse window requesting Yahoo password ability that's a spammer attempting to get into you account talked approximately as phising (feels like fishing).