what options do i have when it appears someone is using my yahoo id to send out spam email?
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The problem is, emails can be easily spoofed (i.e., made to look as if they're coming from a certain account, even if they're not).  It's a flaw of the SMTP protocol.  There's really not much you can do about it.  Change your pw in case someone actually has access to your acct, but that's probably NOT the case.  It's probably just spoofing.
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If you use Yahoo Address Guard (options) "address guard" you can give out a different yahoo address (example: yournameemail-wal-mart@yahoo.com) whenever you sign up for something.   If you get email at that address you know who is sending it or who sold it.\n\nCheck it out.  Great yahoo feature.
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Report it as spam, that is about all you can do
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Just try to block the e-mail address from where you are getting those e-mails.\n\nNote: Any One can send an email with anyones name suppose an ID of you friend if I wanna attack you I will send you an e-mail with an IDofyourfriend@yahoo.com, Attackers can also send email from their own ID but to you it will display any thing they want for example you can get attractive message subject as Free software from Microsoft and you will also see that the email is from microsoft in the sender.
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If you're using Yahoo email, open it up and look in the upper right corner for "options" in blue letters.  Click on options and you should see a submenu for managing spam (also in blue letters). Click on that and you can adjust your spam settings.\n\nplrr
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Try visiting http://www.spamcop.net/ you can register and tell them about the emails you are getting
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The best way I address this is by the "do i know you" factor...If it's a friend's email address, then it's most likely not spam...the reason I say most likely and not "definitely" is because hackers can sometimes use lists of emails you've sent, and mimic them to act like they're your friends. Yahoo does a pretty good job with filtering these.  In general, just don't open anything from people you dont know.  If you know they and dont open it, they'll let you know you havent opened their email and they can resend it to you.
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Thank you for the warning - these kinds of scam mails are flooding everyones mailboxes and I think that they contain one or more Viruses or Trojans or Spyware or Tracking cookies which transmit what you write in reply to the senders and then .... BANG - you or your PC or your bank account are done for - at least thats what I think - and so the best way is to religiously delete or mark the thing as spam without replying to it. They got your email IDs by tracking cookies on your computer or from a search of the internet using an iterative program
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Spammers can change the reply-to and from lines of e-mail to try to hide their tracks but the IP number if you view the full headers of the e-mail will be of the track the e-mail took.  Just delete these messages and pay them no mind.  No one can stop spammm, they try.  If you think the mail came from your account, then change your password to something like "xym13r12y"
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Sometimes there is a link in the mail from advertisers affording you the opportunity to opt out of them sending you emails.  As for individuals, I know that Yahoo has this feature where you can block emails or maybe you can report this mail as spam.
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Forward it to abuse@yahoo.com  You'll first get an automated reply. Then, if it's about another yahoo user, they'll tell you action has been taken.
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if you did this on a yahoo e-mail account, go to your spam list and delete them from the list.  this will allow their e-mail to be placed back in your recieved list
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do this - but carefully\nonce you get the email, move it from your bulk folder to inbox.\nthen, open the email.\nnow you will be able to view the link that says "Report Spam" -or- "SPAM" -or- something...\nand just report it as spam.\n\n---x---\nThe other thing, see if the domain name of these originating email addresses is the same. if it is then block that domain from sending you any emails.\n\n--x--\nif nothing works then you are left with 2 options.\neither ignore the emails or create a new ID.
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if it's yahoo, go to "options" in the upper right of your mail. There is a thing there to make spam not spam
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There is NOTHING you can do to prevent SPAMMERS from sending their CRAP,\nYou can only be diligent in setting up domain blocks and content filters that delete/move the incoming emails to the trashbin (or other preselected folder) upon arrival.
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may be u posted your email-id in some publicaly viewable page. Always use a format that is human readable but not machine readable like : \nme [at] acme [dot] com\ninstead of...\nme@acme...(dont want this id to be spammed :) )\n\nAlways take care of not giving email id to ne stranger. and DO not post it on net just for the sake of utting it.\n\nhope u get lesser spam.
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block them and then find out who there provider is, exm.@yahoo.com or @hotmail.com....... contact and report