Windows 10: How can a spam email have my email address but not come from me?

I have received several emails, stating from my email address, but is spam and not sent by me. I have checked my security settings and log on. I have not been hacked, as far as I can tell. But when I attempted to block the email that "came " me I was told I could not block my own email? How do I stop this? A friend said she had received several from "me" but not from me. do I need to change my password again?

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Spam from my sisters email

True - although, more than a few emails would seem a little suspicous, rather than just a generated or "logged" email address.


As well - it's quite possible the email isn't coming directly from her account. Some email providers allow one to send email, but use a different "from" address (i.e. gmail) - for example, your primary email address is L: someone@someplace.com, when you send a message it would appear to come from L: someone@noplace.com . . .

It wouldn't surprise me, either, that if your sister had registered on a site, that they could be selling off email addresses - sometimes those really shady purchasers of these email lists will use some of these addresses to "mask" where the emails are actually coming from.

Follow the suggestions tha have already been posted, first - defi change the password. Run a good A/V program, and check your rig over for any other malware. Do a good manual cleaning of internet files, too, both cookies, temp files, and any other tripe that ends up in your temp folders. Anything that doesn't want to be deleted nice and easy tends to not bode well . . . if the issue still continues, she may have to give some serious thought to closing the account and picking up a new email provider elsewhere.

It's a PITA, for all involved.

 

Where does spam email come from?

I use a different email address for every site I register with. It's easy to do in Yahoo mail with its 'disposable addresses' feature, less so (but possible) to do something similar in Gmail...

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If a particular address then gets on a spam list you could set a filter in Gmail to reject it or send it to Trash.

Oh, and it's not just websites that get compromised. Anyone you've sent an email to could have had their contacts list harvested should they have picked up some malware.

 

Lots Of Daily Spam Emails


Once you're on the list, the only thing you can do to stop it is change your email address.

I have an old Hotmail email that I use very rarely, and never give out anymore. I've had this account for close to 20 years, and it *STILL* gets a ton of spam. Many years ago I used to sign up for stuff using various fake names so I could try to track where spam was coming from, and I *STILL* get spam with those names 10+ years later.

No, you can't just block the IP addresses. The IP's change regularly, and often these are hijacked servers that are used for a few days or weeks then they move on to the next hijacked server so that people can't block them.

Trust me.. 30 spam messages is not very many, I get over 2500 per day, and that's the stuff that makes it through the front-end filters. There have been particularly bad periods where I've received of 25,000 per day. Only changing your email and never giving it out to any mailing list, service, website, etc.. will protect you from spam, and even then random emails can still be sent if your email address is common enough.

Honestly, I wouldn't be that worried about those "hidden" messages, since 99.9% of spammers just don't care if an email address is good or not.. They don't even bother to remove duplicates.