keep getting spam that appears to be coming from my own email address...??

[joko]

Just recently i have been getting weird spam emails that are listed as coming from my own account...how are they doing this??

NB: i get mail from my yahoo account forwarded to my aol account....and it comes up in my aol inbox as from the yahoo account...

thanks

[rojash]

The only thing weird is that it's only just started. Most people have been getting spam like this for years.

It's a simple matter to create an e-mail that appears to come from an address other than the true originator, and a very common practice among spammers to make it appear as though it's coming from the same address as the recipient.

[joko]

why though? can't see any point...i mean i know its not from me!

and how? i thought emails could be used as legal docs...?

security wise, so theres no hacking? im safe?

[ACtheTROLL]

safe ... in the internet .... ha ha h ha ha ha ha ha ha ahhhh!
no
this is hostile territory
e-mails are possibly accepted - but they are plain text - if they were any easier to intercept you'd have to send them directly to the spammers

the only "safe" mail is an encrypted mail
http://www.truecrypt.org/

and as for why
unfortunately we brits account for almost 20% of sales of spammed products as well has bootleg software ...

idiots are idiots the world over ... just we seem to have more than most

read the posts here ... a window came up - so I installed it ... �50 a month ... can't uninstall - detected 1000s of threats.

a mix of genuine newbies who won't get caught again ... and idiots who are on first name terms with most abers/

but safe? ... even your own machine isn't safe ... you could be infecting people as we speak with something you caught

[squarebear]

Also, so it bypasses any spam filtering, as your own domain will be whitelisted.