[access-uk] Re: Yahoo e-mail account
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:51:30 -0000
Thanks for this, Dean. If I understand you correctly, closing the account or
even changing
the password would do nothing to stop these messages being sent out and would
therefore
be pointless. I just felt unconfortable about messages (how many I don't
know) being sent
with very offensive subject lines and apparently with me as sender.
Douglas
On 26 Nov 2008 at 18:17, Dean Wilcox wrote:
> They're not using your account to do this by
> guessing your password or anything like
> that. With the right software you can make an
> E-mail look like it has come from any address you wish.
>
> At 18:08 26/11/2008, you wrote:
> >Many thanks for this, Andrew - very helpful
> >indeed. At first reading though I have one
> >concern. I subscribe to a number of yahoo
> >groups and occasionally find it useful to go to
> >http://groups.yahoo.co.uk to make changes. If
> >I carried out the process described I would
> >no longer be able to use my Yahoo ID and
> >password to edit the groups, but could presumably
> >then create a new ID and associate it with the
> >groups etc. Rather a nuisance but if it is the
> >only way of getting rid of the spam apparently
> >being sent from my yahoo address then it may
> >be necessary.
> >
> >the problem may have been there for a long time
> >but it only became apparent when the
> >spammer sent one or two of the messages to myself!
> >
> >
> >Thanks again for the information.
> >
> >
>
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Douglas Harrison
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