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willab · Nov 16, 2003, 12:58 AM

Earlier today I got an email from [email protected], I did not think anything of it, but the subject was Some Questions. I know this is stupi, but I replied to it and asked what it was about. Tonight I checked my email and I had a MAILER-DAEMON message from yahoo that said the following:
Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<[email protected]>:
This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account ([email protected]) [-5]

<[email protected]>:
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<[email protected]>:
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<[email protected]>:
This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account ([email protected]) [-5]

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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: "Debera F. McCombs" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: The solution is easy
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:43:19 +0000
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Has my email been hijacked by a spammer? I f so what do I do. I checked my email control panel, and no new addresses have been added. I also changed my password to make very long and random.

Nov 16, 2003, 02:38 AM

With any mail program you can set your own address to be *anything*. Someone did that with your address. You don't have to break into someone else's account to use their address. You just put their address in the From: header.