It's not from me

SPAM is their stock-in-trade. Find a different provider.

"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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It's come to my attention this morning, that my email might have been

hacked

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into and used to send out pornographic emails.

If you receive have received any email purporting to be from me that is of

that

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type, please rest assured it is not from *me*.

I have been in contact with AOL and have to say, I am not impressed by

their

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lack of response to my concern on this. The only way my email could have

been

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hacked, if that is what has happened - according to AOL, is for my

password to

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have been hacked. As I do not give out my password to anyone, plus I run a firewall, I can only
assume that AOL security is perhaps not what it might

be.

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Sincerely

helen simmons

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Clean up the waste & get rid of the trapped wind to send a reply

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"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

It's come to my attention this morning, that my email might have been

hacked

Quoted message said:

into and used to send out pornographic emails.

If you receive have received any email purporting to be from me that is of

that

Quoted message said:

type, please rest assured it is not from *me*.

I have been in contact with AOL and have to say, I am not impressed by

their

Quoted message said:

lack of response to my concern on this. The only way my email could have

been

Quoted message said:

hacked, if that is what has happened - according to AOL, is for my

password to

Quoted message said:

have been hacked. As I do not give out my password to anyone, plus I run a firewall, I can only
assume that AOL security is perhaps not what it might

be.

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Sincerely

helen simmons

It may be much simpler than that. Quite often, spammers will use someone else's email address in
their Reply To: field. The body of the email contains all the HTML to get prospective 'buyers' to
their website, and YOU get the nastygrams and bounces.

If you get an email (or several hundred of them) "Message Undeliverable", examine it. You'll
probably find your email addy in the Reply To:.

Yes, this has happened to me. The only way to stop it is to get a new email address. And it can (and
does) happen with ANY email provider, not just AOL. But there are other reasons for dumping AOL.

Pete

"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" wrote ...

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I have been in contact with AOL and have to say, I am not impressed by

their

Quoted message said:

lack of response to my concern on this. The only way my email could have

been

Quoted message said:

hacked, if that is what has happened - according to AOL, is for my

password to

Quoted message said:

have been hacked. As I do not give out my password to anyone, plus I run a firewall, I can only
assume that AOL security is perhaps not what it might

be.

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Sincerely

helen simmons

Everyone I meet who works with computers seems to have a fairly low opinion of AOL- seems that the
more technically sophisticated they are, the lower their opinion of AOL.
--
mark

wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter said:

It's come to my attention this morning, that my email might have been hacked into and used to send
out pornographic emails.

If you receive have received any email purporting to be from me that is of that type, please rest
assured it is not from *me*.

I have been in contact with AOL and have to say, I am not impressed by their lack of response to
my concern on this. The only way my email could have been hacked, if that is what has happened -
according to AOL, is for my password to have been hacked. As I do not give out my password to
anyone, plus I run a firewall, I can only assume that AOL security is perhaps not what it

might be.

Your problem here is that you didn't ask to talk to someone at AOL who might have a clue. You were
told [censored]. These e-mails were not from you. Someone you know has your e-mail address on his/her
address book, and that someone has an e-mail virus that is spewing out spam in your name -- and in
the name of lots of other people who are in that address book.

Alternately, usenet may be to blame. Spammers harvest usenet posts for e-mail addresses to both
spoof the From: part of the message and to provide address targets.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can _`\(,_ | only be cured by
something racy and Italian. Bianchis and (_)/ (_) | Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis
and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies

"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

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It's come to my attention this morning, that my email might have been

hacked

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into and used to send out pornographic emails.

You have my sympathy. This happened to my daughter some years ago (she was about 10), and it was a
very unpleasant experience. The only way to avoid getting back a bunch of unacceptable replies was
to get her a new e-mail address.

It was actually AOL that called this to our attention, by freezing our account as a spam source.
Their policies may have changed since then.

Mike Kruger said:

It was actually AOL that called this to our attention, by freezing our account as a spam source.

Assuming your daughter wasn't actually sending those emails -- via an email virus, would be a likely
bet, if so -- that's a singularly stupid move on AOL's part. But what else is new.

Jasper