Draft messages in my draft box I did not create
By jenrl17
@jenrl17 (420)
United States
April 7, 2012 6:03pm CST
I would like to know how (and who) I am getting draft messages in my draft box that I did not create. I noticed also that there is sent mail in my sent box that I did not send (possibly connected). Both the messages in my draft and sent boxes contain a link I did not put there, I believe to be spam in the body and these messages are going to my contacts. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how I can stop it? Ive written to Yahoo about it and havent heard anything back and this was 3 weeks ago. I just wrote them again about it actually cause this is still happening. I hope someone can help. Thanks.
3 responses
@camalich (1117)
• Spain
8 Apr 12
Looks like someone has stolen your account. Change the password as soon as possible and check if it keeps happenig. If it does contact your email provider about how to proceed or if maybe they can give you a solution. Happened to me not do long ago :( Solved after applying a much more difficult password :)
@jenrl17 (420)
• United States
9 Apr 12
I did change my password as of yesterday, yes, to something totally different. I hope that resolves the issue. Ill be keeping my eyes open, for both any further draft msgs and if I or any of my contacts get any further email like that from me that just contains the spam link in the body (no subject). In the meantime as I wrote I did contact my email provider, twice, and havent heard anything back yet. Nice huh?
@sparky3dfan (599)
•
8 Apr 12
Apart from changing your password, do you use any 3rd party desktop applications to receive your email? Like thunderbird, outlook for example. What kind of link is it?
Apart from changing your account password you should maybe give your pc/laptop a scan for malware, spyware, trojans and of course any virus related problems. It is possible for one of those to use your email account if its all saved (u/name and p/word) or even being used by a 3rd party desktop client to send out malicious emails.
Goodluck
@ashveronica (63)
• India
9 Apr 12
maybe it has been created by autosaving check ur settings or try once again.....
