Scruffydog777
10-21-2013, 05:48 PM
I've had problems again with my main e-mail account sending out spam. This problem first cropped up when I was in Paris back in march and I opened an e mail that said from dh777. After I opned it, it started sendding out spam to everyone in my address book. Once I got home, I ran virus programs and spam programs and consulted with Comcast support and thought I had the situation resolved.
One extra level of protection I thought I had is I deleted just about all my contacts from this account and if I wanted to send someone an e mail from this account, I would just copy and paste their address from a document file on my computer.
Well it started again last week. On three seperate instances, it sent out spam, but it's sending them out to people who aren't in my address book. So I'm not sure if it's using names from emails in my inbox or sent folders that I haven't deleted, or maybe it kept those names on file. In each case it sent out 8 emails each time, I haven't checked yet to see if it's the same addresses each time.
It's funny but in each case, I received an e-mail from "Gabriel Bordeaux", just before each event happened. I didn't open them, but it almost seemed like them being received was a triggering event for what happened.
I'm also trying to find out from view source exactly where GB is coming from.
I have 2 comcast e-mail accounts. The one in question starts with
dh777
If you've received any spam from me from a different address, please send a message to my google account
scruffydog777@google.com if you so dare.
I called Comcast again to see if there was a way I could set it up so each time I sent out an e-mail, it would require another password to be entered, but it sounded like I was talking to a rep who has a bunch of prepared responses in front of him for each situation a customer has and didn't have anything I hadn't heard before.
To date, my other Comcast account and google account seem to be unaffected.
I'm sorry if this might have inconvenienced anyone and thanks to all who let me know about the problem.
One extra level of protection I thought I had is I deleted just about all my contacts from this account and if I wanted to send someone an e mail from this account, I would just copy and paste their address from a document file on my computer.
Well it started again last week. On three seperate instances, it sent out spam, but it's sending them out to people who aren't in my address book. So I'm not sure if it's using names from emails in my inbox or sent folders that I haven't deleted, or maybe it kept those names on file. In each case it sent out 8 emails each time, I haven't checked yet to see if it's the same addresses each time.
It's funny but in each case, I received an e-mail from "Gabriel Bordeaux", just before each event happened. I didn't open them, but it almost seemed like them being received was a triggering event for what happened.
I'm also trying to find out from view source exactly where GB is coming from.
I have 2 comcast e-mail accounts. The one in question starts with
dh777
If you've received any spam from me from a different address, please send a message to my google account
scruffydog777@google.com if you so dare.
I called Comcast again to see if there was a way I could set it up so each time I sent out an e-mail, it would require another password to be entered, but it sounded like I was talking to a rep who has a bunch of prepared responses in front of him for each situation a customer has and didn't have anything I hadn't heard before.
To date, my other Comcast account and google account seem to be unaffected.
I'm sorry if this might have inconvenienced anyone and thanks to all who let me know about the problem.