SPAM? even when it is not yours?

Spam is one of the downsides of the Internet. I even received spam emails from myself i.e someone used my email address for spamming purposes. This could be one reason why I have been blocked from joining certain sites when I tried using the compromised address. I found one of the email providers is not as effective in stopping spam. I based this on the fact that I keep receiving spam from the same address. Maybe this is because I have a free account. I opened other email accounts but eventually spammers found their way into my inboxes. Sighhh... There are two ways to reduce spam attack. 1) Never use a clean email address to register at other web sites. 2) Never open suspicious emails especially attachments. It seems that some hackers are able to put codes which tell them whether the email is opened or not. If opened then it means the addressee is a good potential target. So we get more spam. Good luck in your fight

this is pretty common for me already. i'm still not too sure how they did it but i've been receiving emails like that for quite a while. i don't usually create a filter list as the yahoo spam filter is quite effective. however, the worrying trend now is email address spoofing. i've ever received a delivery failure notification. i couldn't remember when i ever sent an email. when i opened up the notification, i realised the email couldn't be possibly from me. it's those typical nigerian scam emails! apparently the scammer had spoofed my email address in an attempt to get past the filters.

Surprisingly for me, so far i have not encountered spam mails in my yrs of using email.. hehe ^_^ there isn't any case of mistake in sending to me.. All the spams i have belongs to the sites i joined, but i'm no longer active there, and thus they became my spam.. BUt for u, i do not know how those mails ended up with u even though it's not meant for u.. lol =D MAybe u should reply to the sender and see how it goes. hehe

I too receive spam emails in my inbox.Sometimes i receive spam emails from my friends name.If i receive spam emails.I do not open the emails.I don't delete the emails also because messages in the junk folder are deleted automatically.

I use yahoo as well as many others here it would appear. Yahoo does a good job of dealing with the spam.

I think thats where the words "sending mass unsoliciting emails" mostly come in, i mean people sending this kind of emails mostly use programs where they send thousands of emails at once, and some of them i believe they just stumble into your spambox, and if you reply to that...they add you to their list and next time it will go straight into your inbox I get those kind of emails everyday and for me to believe that is the mass emailing that cause all this is because...some of the emails i got few days ago..could clearly show a list of all people they sent Yesterday i just took some time to read list of all those email accounts they send from that particular email i got, and guess what....they send that unsoliciting email to 8964 email acconuts(at once)

I know what you mean ahgong, SPAM is taking control of several of my email inboxes. I say several because I have set-up other email addresses just so I could escape from guess what? SPAM!!! But it always seems to find me sooner or later. I have a junk mail filter and it least that does capture a lot. Gmail seems to be working the best for me now.

What type of e-mail are you using? If you are using Yahoo mails, they provide you will a spam filter so that it is automatically put aside when the e-mail is not addressed to you. I think they have a software that can detect our e-mail addresses and they can even enter into other people's e-mails. Nowadays there are many hackers so I guess we must take precaution actions to beat these hackers. If they keep pestering you, I suggest you make a report to the e-mail provider that you are subscribing with. Write a request about the abusive actions done by those who sent you the spam e-mails. By doing this, I think it can reduce your problem.

Hi,ahgong.I do receive many Spam everyday,but the address is right.In your case,I think the ISP has sold all their customer's address list to other companies.I hope I can help but I can not come up a good idea.Maybe you have to keep on filtering them.

ITs a reaaly normal phenomena for email. if we publish our email address online. its inevitable to receive spam. they are boring. If your email server do not has effective spam filter, please change it by email sever with high credit.

I know the reason why, the sender send the mail to those guys you can see as receiver, and at the same time, he 'BCC' to you, "blink carbon copy"to you. In that case, you can only see the receiver's e-mail address, but can not see our own e-mail address... Maybe the sender send you this mail and bcc to many person at the same time, but he don't want you to know other receivers' e-mail address.

I get a lot of them too.What I did was I just don't open them then mark each one as spam. Then just empty your Spam Folder, no need to open it. Do this everyday...they will ticker down. Remember, never open them.