MetalOverlord76
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I've been receiving the same type of spam through email from a particular medical website for almost two years. My junk folder only ever contains filtered messages from them. I either just block / delete these contacts, though I've came to the conclusion that these emails have a random combination of letters and numbers that are automatically generated every so often to send spam. It hasn't become so much of a concern until recently that one of my friends said they recently received an odd email from my email address. I didn't know what the heck he was talking about, and I sure as hell didn't send him any email recently. I log into my email address which ends in @live.com. After browsing my recently sent emails folder, I came to the unfortunate discovery that a number of spam emails that were sent with my email were distributed to all my contacts. Various people have also been receiving some emails with spam containing... mature content that were sent by my email.
As far as I know, it's not like my account has been stolen by a 14 year old who did it for the lulz, but rather that this particular company somehow found a way to exploit my email address for their personal gain.
On a side note, the exact same thing has happened to my father's email, of which he uses for professional reasons. He had to apologize to every one of his contacts who received a suspicious email from his email address.
I don't know if what I've said makes much sense, but emails are being sent that I'm not sending. I've updated my password and messed with some account settings and made some of my contact information private.
Would you recommend a course of action I should take?
Should I just replace my email with a new one every so often?
Are what these guys do legal?
As far as I know, it's not like my account has been stolen by a 14 year old who did it for the lulz, but rather that this particular company somehow found a way to exploit my email address for their personal gain.
On a side note, the exact same thing has happened to my father's email, of which he uses for professional reasons. He had to apologize to every one of his contacts who received a suspicious email from his email address.
I don't know if what I've said makes much sense, but emails are being sent that I'm not sending. I've updated my password and messed with some account settings and made some of my contact information private.
Would you recommend a course of action I should take?
Should I just replace my email with a new one every so often?
Are what these guys do legal?