Is this a New form of Spam

[carnut]

Over the Xmas period I have received a number of Spam mails purporting to be from my own email account using my account name.

Spam doesnt worry me but what does is Identity theft and this seems to be of that nature. If I can receive an email with my account as the sender so can anyone else (slipping thru their Spam filter) and although I dont believe anyone who knows me will believe I need whats being sold ( particularly the enhance boobs) I am obviously concerned about this

Tiscali dont seem to want to know...does anyone else have experience of this problem and how to combat it?

 

[eGuru]

Discussed here:

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=62319


Must say I have not received many recently.

 

[carnut]

Thanks to eGuru; info much appreciated ( I obviously didt do my search thread properly )

Some comfort to know its a common problem and I will take action to minimise it

Ta again and happy new year to all:bannana:

 

[230K]

Hi

It was me who was getting the emails, i went online to web mail account (that i didnt know i had) and blocked our address and it seems to have stopped and that is a few days now.

Hope the sme works for you.

230K