Short Up-date About My Email Address

The trouble with looking up senders via the IP address, is that they almost never identify the origins of spam mailings. What they identify is the last computer the mailing was sent from. The largest senders of these types of emails create a network of 'host' computers via worm infections, commandeering legitimate computers globally to do their dirty deeds. Computers are accessed in off hours when they are left on to run backups and other maintenance programs. You know those bogus emails everyone gets for banks to 'verify' their banking information? One (that I heard about) was traced by the security/fraud division of the bank I used to work for. It too was emailed from China, but originating from a network of 'host' computers (all infected with worms) extending through several countries. This particular mailing originated in Africa, but I don't remember the countries name. I can easily see security depts of large businesses like Yahoo or Facebook being the largest department in the company.

I know how frustrating this can be for you. The same thing happened to me once with my msn email. The msn techs finally found that someone had pirated my email address and forged it to send out thousands of spam emails. I was getting over 400 returned emails a day from mailer daemon as undeliverable for various reasons (usually firewalls) and some even responded to angrily tell me to stop sending them spam (I wasn't, of course.) Finally I had to just stop using my msn mail altogether until the dust settled, which took about 3 months. At least my spammer/forger didn't access my address book so none of my friends or relatives got any of their mass mailings, thank goodness. Hang in there, it will stop eventually. You have my sypmathy for the hassel you have to endure until then.

Are you sure your email was hacked and you don't have a virus?

wow that is alot of Is and looks like it stopped as soon as it started 4 weeks ago! hope yahoo helps you out! you might just have to contact your profider and get IP changed

wow..a lot of people seem to be getting their yahoo hit. yahoo needs to do some more safe guards it sounds like.

You did good finding that out and thanks for sharing!!!!

Pye, I use Mailwasher to clean up my arriving e-mails, it works very well, sorting e-mails into legitimate, spam/nasty and unsure. It is set to automatically delete any spam (from a blacklist), and hide legitimate, so I only need to look at the doubtful ones. It might help for you to use it as well.

Oh dear sorry to hear about this - I haven't been able to keep up with myLot at all for ages - had my problems with Twitter :( am glad that finally got straightened out but took nearly a month. Hope your email problem doesn't take that long - I did get your 'laptop' email and thought it strange, not like something you would normally send out - actually have it in my mailbox someplace in the mess :(

hi pyewacket On rereading that email I saw some obvious mistakes in grammar that i knew came from someone who uses English as a second language . So it came from China wow. I scanned my email just now to be sure that email that was a phony did not contain a virus and it scanned clean so not a virus but just a mean scam. thank goodness for that.

Hi pye, Thanks for letting us know, hugs. Briht Blessings. Tamara

Just dropping in to say Hi. I'm WAY behind on my friends posts. Sorry for the generic comment. Happy Holidays!!!

I have been following your story and it seems to get more interesting by the hour.I didnt know you could do thatthough,I mean that there was a site where you could check out email addresses .And wow all the way over to China ,not only are these people responsible of rmass production and copyright infringement ,now we can add scamming to the list.I guess it was going to happen sooner or later that they would master that too.

That is worrying Pyewacket, i have never heard of this happening before. I hope Yahoo get that sorted out for you....and soon!