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I got spam showing one of my email addresses as the sender. What does that mean and should I be doing anything about it?

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:I got spam showing one of my email addresses as the sender. What does that mean and should I be doing anything about it?

Well, you could serve it with eggs over easy, or put it in a sandwich, or...oh, you want advice about e-mail spam, not SPAM.

Chances are there's nothing wrong - someone who has you in his or her address book, however, probably has a virus that propagates via e-mail and sends itself to every address in that person's address book. If there were no attachments, it's probably safe, but I'd delete it and then empty the Trash folder.

OTOH it never hurts to do a virus scan on your computer just to be sure you aren't infected.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:I got spam showing one of my email addresses as the sender. What does that mean and should I be doing anything about it?

Most likely they just forged the "From" address and happened to pick your name from a list. There's nothing to do about that.

You can run a virus scan and anti-spyware scan on your PC, just to make sure nothing has infested it.

Quit sending yourself spam.

peacock2121 wrote:Quit sending yourself spam.

look up one post and to the left, read text.

LOL

What an invite!