Receiving emails from my account, sent by others

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Tom043

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I am receiving email from my own account, sent by others, for drugs and porno. Someone is apparently using my account. How do I stop someone else from using my account?
 
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Ed Kimball

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I am receiving email from my own account, sent by others, for drugs and porno.
Someone is apparently using my account. How do I stop someone else from using
my account?
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It is not unusual for spammers to send e-mail TO your account looking as if
it was sent FROM your account.

If your ISP has a way to report spam that their spam filter has missed, you
should use it to report these messages. Often this feature is easily used in
web-based access to e-mail. My ISPs (att and comcast) both have an address
called "missed-spam@<isp-name>.net; sending a missed e-mail AS AN ATTACHMENT
to that address also reports it and causes them to improve their filtering
process.
 
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Diane Ross

[email protected] said:
I am receiving email from my own account, sent by others, for drugs and porno.
Someone is apparently using my account. How do I stop someone else from using
my account?
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This is pretty common. Entourage will even send messages you send yourself
to the junk folder unless you create a rule for your own messages.

Rule:
This catches the real spam where it appears the mail is from you and not
mail you send yourself. I like the first example. I haven't met a spammer
yet that uses Entourage for a sending client.

Junk Mail where "From is Me"

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule012.html>
 
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