Stolen Email Account. Need To Report It.

Viagra adds have been sent to me with the use of my dead sisters email for the last couple of months. I wont it stopped. This account is sending emails to everyone that was on her address book. They started on her one year of her passing and I want it stopped please do something.

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Answer #1: Posted by kcmjr on June 29th, 2011 10:51 AM

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Go to this page to initiate the account closure: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/changing_users/edit-23.html;_ylt=Ai9GvLa8oa.3DALzUQIfT9.GkiN4

Something to consider...

The account is likely not hacked. The return email address was more likely spoofed by a spammer. It's a trivial matter to fake a return address and sens email to hundreds of other accounts with the fake return address.

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do to stop this since the returns you see are from legitimate email hosts letting you know that the email address the spam was sent to are not accepting it.

The best defense is a good mail filter to filter out the returns.

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