July 15, 2017, 06:01 PM
egregore"Spam" e-mails with a twist - the senders say I am spamming THEM
I've gotten 18 of these in the last 24 hours, the subject lines saying, with only slight variation, "Remove me from your mailing list." Of course, I didn't send them. I've never seen this kind before. Is this some kind of hack, and is it a threat or a nuisance?
July 15, 2017, 06:16 PM
IntrepidTravelerIt's possible someone spoofed your return email address on their spams, and you are dealing with PO'd spam recipients. It's happened to me. Ignore.
July 15, 2017, 06:16 PM
V-TailIt sounds like somebody is spoofing; using your email address as their "sender" or "reply to" address.
This has happened to me in the past.
July 15, 2017, 06:16 PM
mikeyspizzaDo you recognize any of the senders?
Are the emails asking you to click on anything? If so, hover over the link, copy the url, and then google it.
A remote possibility is that your email got hacked or someone has your email address and is sending stuff out using your email address.
In the past 2 weeks 2 different people have created accounts and ordered stuff using my email address. Nothing sinister, they both just typed in a wrong character when they created their accounts. I was just a little confused when I got an email that the plus-size dress I ordered had shipped!

July 15, 2017, 06:28 PM
lakerayquote:
Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
In the past 2 weeks 2 different people have created accounts and ordered stuff using my email address. Nothing sinister, they both just typed in a wrong character when they created their accounts. I was just a little confused when I got an email that the plus-size dress I ordered had shipped!
So your saying you take a 2x instead?
July 15, 2017, 07:11 PM
mikeyspizzaquote:
Originally posted by lakeray:
So your saying you take a 2x instead?

+1
July 15, 2017, 07:49 PM
egregoreOK, thanks, guys. I haven't seen any more of them in the last couple of hours. I sent e-mails to my regular contacts and told them to ignore anything unusual from me.