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Non-ebay adverts coming from ebay email address

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  • Mistral001
    Mistral001 Posts: 5,445 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    Just an update. I think the problem was related to my email browser. The spammers were in some way making my email browser display a legitimate ebay email address for the sender, whereas the emails were actually sent from the spammer's address.


    I changed my email password and it seems to have cleared up the problem.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,062 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Changing your password should not have made any difference to the emails, they have your email address and that has not changed.

    Maybe a lull in the sending of the spam?
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • Yes, it's not changing your password that solved the problem although doing so can never be a bad thing. Just remember that any email can be made to look like it came from an alternate address to what it actually did by fraudsters.
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