Spam emails

welshbookworm

Help please, I woke this morning to find that I'm sending loads of spam emails when I'm not on the computer!
How do I stop please?
Many thanks

gb12345

welshbookworm wrote: »

Help please, I woke this morning to find that I'm sending loads of spam emails when I'm not on the computer!
How do I stop please?
Many thanks

First off, are you actually sending them or are they just coming from your email address.

Check your sent items folder - are the copies of the emails being sent in there? If not then someone has spoofed your email address and what you are seeing is replies/delivery failures. There is not much you can do about this I'm afraid.

If the mails are in your sent folder then someone has accessed your email account, so the first thing to do is to change all your passwords. It is likely that someone has just sent the emails manually from your email account, but it is possible that your machine has been compromised. So, download and run a malware checker to see if your machine has been set up as a bot and the messages are being actually sent from your machine.

welshbookworm

many thanks

welshbookworm

Nothing in my sent folder - so looks like the first part of your answer! Hopefully it will stop *fingers crossed*

macman

If it's just address spoofing, it will. I'd still change your email password as a precaution though.

scottishbargainhunter_2

I get this too and it drives me nuts from a 20 year old email account. I don't want to change email but I get emails from me that are spam and that doesn't look good. I've not found a way to fix that.