My e-mail address has been hacked! I have hundreds of contacts. How can I send an e-mail to alert them to multiple addressees

Is he using your Correct email address?

i think the only way you should be able to know which one had the problem is to re-send the emails you sent one by one this take's time but this way you should be able to know which is which

You have to report the error to the company hosting the email, for eg. Yahoo or Hotmail. You can do this by creating a new email and writing them a mail. Or go through their main webpages and click on the contact us tab.

good luck

This has become a common problem in the past couple of months. Please follow the steps below in order:

1. Log on to your Yahoo mail account. Check in the "Sent" folder. If you see the bogus messages in question in that folder, then it can be assumed that someone has hacked your password and is using your account to send spam. You would then need to go to Step 3 (skip 2).

2. If you do NOT see the bogus messages in your "Sent" folder, then your Yahoo account has likely not been hacked, but rather someone else's computer (which does not use Yahoo) is infected with a malware bot that is sending out the messages independently of Yahoo, but spoofing your address as the sender. It gets the addresses to send to from that computer's contacts/address book. If this is the case, then you can't do much but advise your friends of the facts and that you're not responsible for the messages. Then go to Step 3.

3. In either of the above instances, it would be a good idea to first terminate your present Yahoo account, and open a new one with a different e-mail address. Choose a completely new, and hard to guess, password and new "secret questions." Advise your friends and contacts of your new address.

The problem that arises in these instances is that the user doesn't want to have to change their e-mail address, as that causes some inconvenience and is time-consuming. They would rather just change their password and secret questions and leave it at that. IF your situation is as in Step 1 (your account was hacked), then this MAY be sufficient. However, whomever hacked it knows your address and basically who you are, and had access to your address book. Your security is compromised any way you look at it.

The safest and most reliable method is to change your address, and your password/secret questions...and to advise your friends to please make sure their computers are clean of malware.

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Hope this is helpful.

I would suggest you to change your password for the email address your email might have been hacked hence i would suggest you to have a strong password wth a CAPS letter , numbers and special characters in your password.


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The emails went to the addressee. If they didn't, you would get a notification saying something like this; "unable to deliver .....".
Someone else who knew the password could read it and delete it. Just a possibility. Or the addressee deleted it accidently.
I can't help you more.
Best wishes
luciana44

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No anyone can send you an e-mail you can check on the origination of the e-mail by looking at the IP address and going to whois.com to see the webmaster for the mail holder.
Send e-mail to the webmaster and tell him/her your concerns and they may be able to help…Hope that help you and please do not forget to rate my service to be able to improve on it and help everyone.

Yes, indeed there is! But you will need to add the addresses one by one.
Here is what you need to do to block certain addresses:

1) Go to your inbox and look for this option (see below). It is just below the search button. Click it and select 'Mail Options'.


2) If you have chosen correctly, then it should take you to another page.

3) On the left pane you will see a list of options to choose from. Click on the 'Spam' option.

4) Choosing the spam option will present the extended options on the right side.

5) On the right side there will be a section for 'Blocked e-mail addresses'. You can specify all the id's to block. Then onwards you will only recieve from the ones you want.

6) As a shortcut you can also select the 'View' option and select 'Messages from my contacts option'. (See figure below).



Do not give your e-mail id on random sites. They are the ones responsible for sending you spam. Examples are dating and adult sites.
Also if the yahoo! server is busy you can do this another time.

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