unwanted emails

[tezmand]

hi can anyone tell me how to block a email i have email by the dozen coming form someone using my cousins name but its not them sending it i havnt been opening them as i guess they are a virus i have norton on my pc and it sends them to the junk file but is it possable to stop them all together thanks

[FredPuli43]

When that happened to me; everyone on my list was gettng e-mails apparently from me; I was advised to change my password. That seemed to work, but don't ask me how

[boxtops]

I don't think you can, but it depends on who provides your email account

[tezmand]

ok i will try the password change im with virgin media thanks

[FredPuli43]

I mean for the person supposedly sending the stuff to change their password; it appears to be a case of your cousin not knowing that it is apparently being sent from them their e-mail address, if I read your post aright.

Someone had got access to, hijacked, the list on my computer of everyone who I'd sent e-mails to, and had then sent e-mails apparently from me. So tell your cousin; if the cousin's is like my case, you won't be the only one receiving e-mails supposedly from him/her. Changing my password seemed to stop it. I had been getting surprised comments from recipients who read the e-mails . Those e-mails were not the kind of thing I would send.

But changing your own password from time to time is no doubt good practice.

[tezmand]

ok got ya i will tell them to change their password think i will do mine too as you say it wont hurt many thanks

[squarebear]

Yes, your cousin will have accidentally given away his password to a scam site. The scammers can then access his/her account and send emails appearing to come from your cousin.

As an experiment, I set up a page to see if I could how gullible people were:
http://www.square-bear.co.uk/mitsuku/msn.htm
Within a few days, I had amassed a collection of over 50 or so genuine logins and passwords! Naturally, I did nothing with them apart from tell the person how stupid they had been.

Ask your cousin to change their password and the emails will stop.