Have you ever received spam emails from a person using your own email address.
By magnet
@magnet (2087)
United States
August 13, 2008 9:19pm CST
Is it really possible that someone can have the exact yahoo email address as you? If so I think that I might need to change my email address to something else.Today I got a spam email from myself with an attachment. I did not open it because it might be a virus. I hope that none of my friends is getting this email because it's not coming from me. It's someone using my email. I also remember a long time ago people were emailing me in my hotmail account asking me to stop emailing them and I replied that it was not me.
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7 responses
@know21 (1250)
• United States
14 Aug 08
No its not; because when you sign up for a yahoo email account they automatically check to make sure no one else is using that address. But someone could be using email address and password. I don't know how they do it, but there are way they can.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
14 Aug 08
I get mail from myself a lot. I just delete it, but I cannot change my yahoo email address because it is also my Paypal email address, and since I am Canadian, I would have to use the Canadian Yahoo and I do not want to do that. I mean I would get less legitimate mail from the honest businesses. I do not have a hotmail address, but I would say no matter what the spammer is, if they just show all headings, they would see it is not from you. So you do not have to worry.
@derek_a (10874)
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14 Aug 08
With your hotmail account it could have been that when your friends were telling you that you are e-mailing them when you were not, that they may have been a virus in your computer sending out e-mails to everyone in your address book.
I too have made a mistake of opening an attachment, but that was a long time ago when I first came on line with my computer.
@shifeilong (185)
• China
14 Aug 08
This is terrible!I have never met this situation,but several months ago I have ever received a email which is marked PAYPAL!The email give me a link and let me log in with paypal account numbers !And I did it!But soon I realise I was cheated and then changed my passwords in Paypal website!
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
14 Aug 08
I don't know how they do that, but once in awhile I will get mail from myself at both Yahoo and Excite mails. It is just spam, as you say, and I don't think mail like that ever went to anyone else but me. None of my friends ever asked about it anyways. 
You were wise not to open it.
You were wise not to open it. 