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What alternatives do I have to protect my identity if users outside the USA are spoofing my account?

I've examined the headers and reported those to ISPs I can determine. The others are locations / ISPs I can't find.

* Due to spam reports targeting my Yahoo email address, some of my email goes to people's Spam folders.

* I know the usual channels and reported the ones I could find.

* The others I can't determine.

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    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Hi Ann,

    Spoofing is notoriously unstoppable. Mostly due to people sharing their email addresses with untrustworthy companies and those companies selling the email addresses to spammers.

    Your best bet is to keep your email private to yourself and trusted contacts. If you use your email address on deal sites, trade sites or any social networks it is possible that spammers will be able to find it and fake it to send spam.

    Sorry there isn't more we can do for you at this time!

    Echo S.

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