I'm getting spam email with my address as the sender. How does this happen?

Will other people be getting this email that seems to come from me?
I'm getting spam email with my address as the sender. How does this happen?
It's called "spoofing".


Spoofing is the "forgery" of an address, to hide the identity of the sender, and is usually done by an Automatic Spamming system, that blindly and randomly, runs through addresses in sequence.


It's not actually coming from or thru your account.


One type that's called "Self Spamming"--(go figure)--appears to be coming "from" and going "to" the same address.





Anti-spam experts say----At this time, there's nothing you can do, except delete them. They are a nuisance, but harmless and don't last long.


Don't spam them--you'd only be spamming your own address.
Reply:I am getting this problem too I also get about 200 spam mail each day all from a medical place advertising viagra gels etc I just delete them immediately but now they are starting to come into my in box as well as spam mail how do we stop this. I nearly lost important mail because of it.