Computer (desk top) assistance needed

[TwoBitTxn]

Some how all star Costa Rica travel has me messed up. They send out a spam mail and the return addy to get removed from their list is my mail box.

How did they do this to me, and how do I fix it?

TwoBit

 

[Scubaroo]

...are you using? Web based mail, or Outlook, or something else? You should be able to "block" emails based on the subject line, and you will do it different ways depending on what email program you have.

 

[TwoBitTxn]

I have a bad habit of leaving my box open. Trying to break it. I figured thats how it got swipped.

That's how I almost lost my E-bay acct.

TwoBit

 

[bostoncello]

Hey TwoBitTxn,

You have likely not been hacked. The spammer probably just "spoofed" the headers in your email, meaning that their email software inserted your email address in botth the To: and ReplyTo fields of the email they sent, thereby ensuring that their own email would not be visible.

If you look in your email program, you should find the option to View Full Headers, which will show you the IP address of the server that the spammer either used or (more likely) borrowed, and maybe a domain name. And yes, these guys have no ethics.

You can report the violator to Yahoo if the source was a Yahoo account, or you can look for the domain from which the perpetrator sent the email and send a compaint to that box. You can use the whois.net to look up the domain name and find the hosting provider, and send a complaint to them. Just be sure it's an ISP and not a self-contained spammer...

Hope this helps,

John

PS: Read the Yahoo Help section on their Bulk Email box. You can use their software to filter spam.