Re: Email hacked

you are not hacked.  The SMTP protocol is rather um, flexible in some 
cases and can easily allow spoofing of the sender's name.

I believe all that has happened here is that your email address has 
ended up on a list somewhere that a script kiddie or spammer is using.  
The trick here is to NOT respond to that email, and your email client 
should be configured to NOT send read receipts.  ANY response to the 
email at all - automatic or from you just confirms that your email 
address is valid and makes it worth more.  Which means that you will see 
even more spam.

If your mail client supports it, tag the email as spam or junk so that 
the next time you get a similar email it is automagically filtered to 
the correct folder (be it /spam, /junk, /trash, or /dev/null...)

Shawn

On 2016-03-06 09:20 PM, Joe S wrote:
> I got an email from my email address to my email address. It is a scam
> about money. I am supposing I need to change my email address. Is there
> also a problem with my computer. How would someone do this?
>
> Joe
>
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