Spammers using my email addy

[Royals1969]

Spammers have been using my email address for about a week now to send out SPAM. I know this because I get a couple  "undeliverable" email /returned emails I didn't send every day.....Well today I just got an email from VERIZON

stating that my "Outbound email access suspended"....What can I do ?

Thanks

Royals

[mfizzy]

Change your password. Email will be suspended for 24 hours.

[tns2]

As said change your password.

However nothing stops someone from pretending to be you without ever knowing your password or even using a Verizon server.  The weakness is in the EMAIL protocols, originally designed when it was assumed all email users were trusted.

[Royals1969]

I did change my password a few days ago, but spamming continued til i got suspended Monday...So I doubt that the spammers are even using verizon email servers...So am I correct there is NOTHING I can do to stop it?

[gs0b]

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@Royals1969 wrote:

I did change my password a few days ago, but spamming continued til i got suspended Monday...So I doubt that the spammers are even using verizon email servers...So am I correct there is NOTHING I can do to stop it?

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You are correct; there is nothing we can do when spammers spoof an email address as the sender.

I'm curious why Verizon is suspending your account, though.  I thought they did that when an account sent lots of email that they think is spammy.  In this case, that's not happening so I've no idea what trigger the suspension.

I don't use Verizon's email for much,as I like to have better control over my email and I don't like my email linked to my ISP.

Good Luck.

[viafax999]

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@Royals1969 wrote:

I did change my password a few days ago, but spamming continued til i got suspended Monday...So I doubt that the spammers are even using verizon email servers...So am I correct there is NOTHING I can do to stop it?

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I think that maybe you should contact tech support and see what they have to say.

Do you use a pop client or are accessing email via webmail?

You'll probably find next that your wan address has been blacklisted for spamming.

[gamer99]

reset your password. changed it to something different and difficult to guess.  Verizon has announced that some accounts have been compromised.

[rweintra]

I'm having the same problem from my account. Getting hundreds of emails like that a day, supposedly written from my email address, which they weren't. How do I stop it? I changed my password twice but still happening.