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receiving email from myself!
      #382277 - Thu Jan 31 2008 11:50 AM

Lat night I received an email through my hotmail account from myself which obviously i didn't send...I didn't open it, but it just looked like spam...Is it likely to just be spam or have i been hacked and should i be worried?? I have changed my password, and was wondering whether to delete my account and get a new one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

samm


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Re: receiving email from myself! [Re: samm]
      #382327 - Thu Jan 31 2008 03:31 PM

It's spam. It's relatively easy for spammers to make an email look as if it's been sent from your own computer.

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Re: receiving email from myself! [Re: greysts]
      #382329 - Thu Jan 31 2008 03:37 PM

Thanks very much for your help! I thought it would be that, I just got a bit freaked though when I seen it was supposedly sent from my address.

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