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I seem to have a Virus in my email that is sending me spam emails from my own email address.
I use a chrome book so it doesn't have anti virus to sweep with.
I can't block the emails as they are from myself and hotmail says i am in my own contacts. I have changed my email password and there are no forwarding addresses but it is still happening.
What should I do?
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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MYABE THILL HELPY!
Without further adue:
Account login: **@outlook.comPaswor: tres3333
Remember to change the password before some one else does it, so you can enjoy your account a lot longer!
Regarts,
Bob Alias
See http://ask-leo.com/why_am_i_getting_spam_from_myself.html
You can find support for Hotmail at this forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive
Good luck...
Hi,
I understand that someone is trying to use your account and using it in sending emails.
Possible that your account has been hijacked, we recommend you to safeguard your account to prevent this from re-occurring as your account may have been accessed by someone somewhere to send unwanted emails from unknown or known contacts.
Kindly change again your account password and reconfigure your password reset information.
Click here for steps on how to change your Microsoft account password and here for steps on how to reconfigure your password reset information.
You may also check your account information as there may be an alternate email address that you do not recognize. The other alternate email address will receive email notification every time you change your password and the hacker may change it again. If you do not recognize the alternate email address, you can remove it.
Also, please view the following articles to protect online privacy:
Protect your privacy on the Internet.
Your information on the Internet: What you need to know.
Take charge of your online reputation.
Check your password—is it strong?
Please do not hesitate to post back if you need further assistance.
Thanks!
The same thing is happening to me, even after password change. They are not hijacking the email account because you can look at your 'sent' and see that it wasn't sent from our own email. There has to be another way they are able to send us an email incognito posing under our own email address?
Hi,
Welcome to Microsoft community and thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.
The possible reason of this issue is that you are a victim of email spoofing.
Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address - something which is simple to do because the core protocols do no authentication. Spam and phishing emails typically use such spoofing to mislead the recipient about the origin of the message.
We need to investigate the possible reason if you are victim of email spoofing we need some information from your sent message. Due to sensitivity of information we created a private message.
Please make sure you are signed in to view the private message.
Thank you