you are not hacked. The SMTP protocol is rather um, flexible in some
cases and can easily allow spoofing of the sender's name.
I believe all that has happened here is that your email address has
ended up on a list somewhere that a script kiddie or spammer is using.
The trick here is to NOT respond to that email, and your email client
should be configured to NOT send read receipts. ANY response to the
email at all - automatic or from you just confirms that your email
address is valid and makes it worth more. Which means that you will see
even more spam.
If your mail client supports it, tag the email as spam or junk so that
the next time you get a similar email it is automagically filtered to
the correct folder (be it /spam, /junk, /trash, or /dev/null...)
Shawn
On 2016-03-06 09:20 PM, Joe S wrote:
I got an email from my email address to my email address. It is a scam
about money. I am supposing I need to change my email address. Is there
also a problem with my computer. How would someone do this?
Joe
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